How does one balance discipline with kindness?

88 Temples Pilgrimage

Arukihenro - Japanese Pilgrimage

The over a thousand year old Shikoku Henro connects 88 predetermined sacred places along a 1400 kilometre long circular route on Japan's forth largest island, Shikoku. Based on ethnographic survey methods the film ARUKIHENRO shows the motives, aims and desires of today's Japanese walking pilgrims on a very personal level along this Buddhist pilgrimage. The documentary and roadmovie was shot during a period of nine months, while the filmmakers themselves hiked along the entire pilgrimage, accompanying different pilgrims through long stages of their journeys. More information about the film and the available DVD at www.tigertoda.ch

The Personality: Before and After Awakening

Does ego help us realize egolessness?

Matthieu Ricard on the habits of happiness

War of the Worldviews

"Bravo! This delightful book is bound to be the Gold Standard by which all other books on science/spirituality will be measured. Bold, refreshing, lucid, and insightful, this thoughtful collection of essays seeks to unveil the mysterious of our very existence. Is there a purpose to the universe? What is our true role in the cosmos? This book dares to ask some of the deepest, most profound questions about our very existence, and comes up with some surprising, even shocking answers."--Michio Kaku Prof. of Theoretical Physics, City Univ. of NY. Author of the New York Timesbest sellers Physics of the Future, and Physics of the Impossible.

Are we supposed to transcend the ego?

Spirituality <> Quantum Mechanics (?)

Suspension Online Meditation

All Online Meditation Sessions are suspended until further notice

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind, there are few. That is the real secret of the arts, always be a beginner."

-Shunryu Suzuki

What should a beginner expect from a meditation group?

Amir Mourad - Penetrating Through The Veil Of Delusion

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.” -Unknown

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

Daily awareness is the way.
Do not delude yourself by seeking truth elsewhere.
Just pay close attention to the small daily happenings, and gain insight from life.

Kasyapa

One Moment Meditation

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

All the thoughts, all the emotions, all the experiences are happening,

but they are not mine, they are not me.

Who is this watcher, witnessing all these things?

Who am I within this mind-body mechanism?

The biggest mystery is that I don't know and yet I am.

Leela

The Misguided Monk

Weekly spiritual Wisdom

This is as it should be.
As the Ego fights its reflection and the outside chaos makes its falsely amplified noise, you can be in the stillness of your Soul.
You can feel your own truth; you can feel your own peace.
No need to react to what is illusion.

Beth Johnson

Next Live Online Introduction Zen Meditation

“Silence is a source of great strength.” (Lao Tzu)


The date for the next Live Online Video INTRODUCTION Meditation (Zen) is July 3rd, 2011, at 16.00/04.00 pm GMT

Check your local time here:    


The dates of the regular Live Online Video Meditation (Zen) sessions can be found at the Meditation Calendar

Sign Up!

Spiritual Wisdom

The master does not interfere.
He perfects the whole universe in his heart.
He is not interested in wealth and glory, sees no advantage to a long life, is not excited with success, is not discouraged by failure or troubled by the goods and evils of the world.
He knows that all beings are the rings of a same chain and that life and death are only one body.
Tchuang Tzu

Words of Wisdom

“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the world.” -Marcus Aurelius

How does meditation practice develop over time?

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

In the practice of meditation there is no need for a special place.
Once the heat of the ego is put out, naturally there is a sense of well-being.
Dongshan

Simple Truth: Meditations on morning tea

Simple Truth: Meditations on morning tea: "This morning, as with all mornings, I poured myself a cup of tea from my teapot. It was a lapsang souchong - a smoky tea that is soothing b..."

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously. Seriousness is the root cause of problems. Be playful, and you will not miss anything.
Osho

Words of Wisdom

“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” ~Lao Tzu

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” -Dalai Lama

Most of the time when I feel overwhelmed, stressed, frustrated, or angry, it’s because I’m obsessing about my circumstances–everything that feels unfair or insurmountable and all the ways I feel powerless to change them.

In this state of mind, I inevitably stress other people out, whether I talk about my challenges or not.
It’s there, spoken or unsaid. It gets in the way of my ability to really be present with the people I love, and it affects their state of mind.

I’ve realized that the surest path to feeling more peace is recognizing when I’m challenging other people’s–when I’m drowning my interactions with my personal struggles instead of creating a positive space for myself and the people I encounter.

We’ll always have problems in life, and if we’re not careful, they can suffocate our relationships.
Today if you feel burdened by your struggles, realize that stressing won’t create solutions–it will just create more problems, for you and others.

The alternative is to breathe–to value collective peace in the present more than individual control over the future. Ironically, this often makes it a lot easier to identify solutions.

Lori Deschene (tinybuddha)

About Enlightment

Finally pure awareness remains

I am exists nowhere

All Things endlessly change

A journey back to the Origin

Yet, enlightenment requires no voyage

Pure equanimity remains

Emotions dissipated

Intellections seized

Thoughts observed

As boats on a calm sea;

As though blind and deaf

Seeing with no eyes

Hearing with no ears

Mechanisms of perception immobilized

Ideas of holiness vanished

All Things belong to emptiness

Everything is understood as it is

Yet, enlightenment comes from what is Not

Master Nomi

The Tao Way Of Life

Having without possessing, acting without
expectations, leading and not trying to control:
this is the supreme virtue

"How To Have Your Own Conversation With God" with Neale Donald Walsch

Free live teleseminar:

"How To Have Your Own Conversation With God" with Neale Donald Walsch

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

You must act only for this day and this hour, Because tomorrow is unfixed and difficult to know. You must meditate without wasting time, thinking that there is only this day and this hour. After that it becomes truly easy.
Dogen

Mayan Poem

Spiritual Wisdom

If you want to know who you are, you will have even to close your eyes; you will have to go withinwards. You will have to forget the whole world, you will have to forget what they say about you. You will have to go deep inside you and encounter your own reality. Osho

Food for Thought

“Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life,
but the ability to cope with it.” N.N.

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

Signs of one who progresses with meditation : he does not blame anyone, he does not praise anyone, he does not complain about anyone, he accuses no-one, he does not say anything of himself as someone important or who knows something . When he is embarrassed or upset, he looks only into himself.
Epictetus

What is your Life Purpose?

Read this wonderful comment by Chris on the question "What is your Life Purpose?"; comment on it yourself, like it, share it. Enjoy!

What is your Life Purpose

Spiritual Wisdom

When your thinking rises above concern for your own welfare,
wisdom which is independent of thought appears.
Ha Gakure

Being free from concepts

Being free from concepts is like going backstage in a theater
and suddenly realizing how much of our engagement with the drama has come from mere appearances: the costumes,the makeup, the staging, the lighting, and actors projecting artificial personae. ...It is liberating to realize that we are, in effect,"making it all up."

We are playing on the stage set,lost in the costumes and the lighting. We are creating boundaries and divisions according to our histories, our fears, our needs, and our habits.

But what is the substance of these boundaries?

Where can they be found, in truth?

~ Sharon Salzberg ~

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

Once you know meditation, you don't have to follow anybody. You have your own eyes open, and you have your light just ahead of you showing the path, and all that is right and all that is good happens choicelessly.
Osho

On Meditation

"Meditation is not a solution of any problem in particular; it solves nothing. It simply helps you to get rid of the mind, the problem-creator. It simply helps you to slip out of the mind like a snake slips out of the old skin.  Once you know you are not the mind the great transcendence has happened. Suddenly all problems become insignificant; slowly, slowly they evaporate. You are left with a profound peace; a great silence prevails.  This silence is the solution. This peace is the answer, the answer of all answers." Osho

Spiritual Wisdom

If one does not think about right and wrong,
then the mind is naturally at ease.
If one has no thought of peace of mind,
that is true peace.
Chuang Tzu

Two Great Days

There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why. N.N.

Motivation

Questioner:But isn’t it important to meditate?
Ngak’chang Rinpoche: Of course—it’s crucial [laughs]. But that’s just us tellingyou that. What do you think? How important do you think it is?
Q: TheDharma books say—
NR: Yes,“the Dharma books” say all kinds of things. People sometimes knock on our doorand tell us what their book says—but what does that mean? What do yousay?
Q: I guessI’m confused.
NR: That’sbetter! Splendid! That’s a much better place to find yourself.The next step is to accept that with a certain sense of humor.No one enjoys confusion, but as long as we cling to our dualistic vision, wewill always translate not knowing as “confusion.” We don’t likeconfusion because within the space of confusion definitions become vague andintangible. That makes us feel insecure. Accepting or relaxing in thatinsecurity is in itself a practice. This is the wisdom of insecurity. To bemotivated, you have to develop your understanding of what the process of shi-nèhelps you to discover. To develop motivation, you have to take a serious lookat your life.
Khandro Déchen: It could also be humorous . . .  seriously humorous.
NR: Quite![laughs]
KD: Notwanting to sit is not feeling motivated to change. Not feeling motivated tochange is either being afraid of change or seeing no reason to change. If wehave a good understanding of Buddhism through reading, reflecting, andlistening—through checking these teachings against our ownexperience—motivation naturally develops. But take your time; be kind to yourself.
NR: Behonest and question your present motivations accurately—allow your attunedintent to grow. This is your experiment, so don’t have to complicate it withguilt and frustration. You’ll enter into practice when it makes sense at anexperiential level. If we want to meditate because we think it’s a religiousobservance, then real motivation may never arise from that.
KD: Acceptyourself as you are, and start from there. How does that sound?
Q: Itsounds like a big relief!
—from the book Roaring Silence

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

Enjoy the Roundness

Questioner:I’ve always been very interested and impressed by Buddhism and what it has totell us about reality. I can’t imagine a superior outlook on life—but I can’tseem to find time for meditation. I want to meditate and I often promise myselfI will get going with daily meditation, but then when I do get going it getsinterrupted and I let weeks or months slip by. Can you give me some advice onthis?


Ngak’chang Rinpoche: How much do you want to practice?


Q: It’svery important to me.


NR: That’sinteresting. I wonder why that is? [pause]Let me see if I understand you correctly. You want to do something. It’simportant to you—but you don’t do it. Have I understoodyou correctly? Was that the gist of what you said?


Q: Yes.


NR: Well,the answer is fairly simple then. When you want to meditate more than you wantto use your free time in other ways, you’ll find less difficulty. I mustapologize if that sounds somewhat blunt, but it’s a simple statement of themanner in which motivation functions. We could look at it another way. What ifI told you, “I want to get thinner, but I keep eating too much and don’t exercise.” Your response might be the same: “You obviouslylike eating and not exercising more than you’d like to be thinner.”


Khandro Déchen: We’re not making a value judgment here either—we’re just saying, “Enjoythe roundness of your belly as much as the taste of your food.”


NR: Orenjoy your moderation as much as your envisioned thinness.


—from the book Roaring Silence/aromeditation.org

Weekly Spiritual Wisdom

All the Buddhas of all the ages
have been telling you a very simple fact:
Be - don't try to become.
Within these two words,
be and becoming,
your whole life is contained.
Being is enlightenment,
becoming is ignorance.

OSHO

The Power of Purpose

Can there be more to life than just going to work everyday and doing your job? Is there work that is unique to you? Is there a job that you are uniquely called to do? In The Power of Purpose, Richard Leider provides a practical process for answering these questions and creating a life filled with meaning and passion.

Follow your bliss (and your grunt)

Thank You!

The master does not interfere.
He perfects the whole universe in his heart.
He is not interested in wealth and glory, sees no advantage to a long life, is not excited with success, is not discouraged by failure or troubled by the goods and evils of the world.
He knows that all beings are the rings of a same chain and that life and death are only one body.

Tchuang Tzu

Next Live Online Introduction Zen Meditation

“Silence is a source of great strength.” (Lao Tzu)


The date for the next Live Online Video INTRODUCTION Meditation (Zen) is
May 1st, 2011, at 16.00/04.00 pm GMT

Check your local time here:    


The dates of the regular Live Online Video Meditation (Zen) sessions can be found at the Meditation Calendar

Sign Up!

Spiritual Wisdom

Just let things be in their own way and there will be neither coming nor going. Obey the nature of things (your own nature), and you will walk freely and undisturbed.

Sosan

Spiritual Wisdom

The awakening of knowing, of self-realization leads to a renunciation, not of the world, but of attachment to it. In this awakening you do not have to give up anything - What is useless and superfluous drops on its own like the dry leaves from a tree.

Osho

Spiritual Wisdom

Peace is not a momentary lack of restlessness in our mind. It is not a transitory state. It is our true nature, has always been. It can never leave us. It is our noise that covers it up. It is only our Ego dreaming he loses it and playing dramatically to look for it.

Nicole Montineri

Spiritual Wisdom

Hey you, seeking the path that leads to the secret, go back, because it is in you that the whole secret lies.

Ibn Arabi

Spiritual Wisdom

You are full if you are in tune with the universe. If you are not in tune with the universe, then your are empty. And out of that emptiness comes greed - greed is to fill it, with money, houses, furniture, with friends, lovers, with anything.

Osho

Spiritual Wisdom

If you cannot find the truth where you are,
where do you hope to find it?

Dogen

On Meditation

Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It is the actualization of wisdom, the ultimate truth of the oneness of all things.

Dogen

Spiritual Wisdom

Whatever activity you do, do it slowly, with the attention it deserves. Do not rush to end it. Be relaxed in everything and bring your full attention to it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Words of Wisdom

Be yourself. You are unique.
No comparison is possible.
Each of us develops into a unique individual
who enters into unique transactions
with the world as it exists for him.

Tishan

How does mind serve awakening?

Words of Wisdom

All of us can work for peace.
We can work right where we are,
right within ourselves,
because the more peace we have within our own lives,
the more we can reflect into the outer situation.

Peace Pilgrim

Conscious Leadership with Inspirational Speaker Dieter Langenecker 3/26/2011 - OmoYemaya H2O Netwo | Internet Radio | Blog Talk Radio

Conscious Leadership with Inspirational Speaker Dieter Langenecker 3/26/2011 - OmoYemaya H2O Netwo | Internet Radio | Blog Talk Radio

Dates Online Live Video Meditation (Zen) March/April 2011

“Silence is a source of great strength.” (Lao Tzu)


The dates for next Live Online Video Meditations Sessions (Zen) are
in March 2011:
Sunday, March 27th, 2011 at 17.00/05.00 pm GMT
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 19.00/07.00 pm GMT,
in April 2011:
every Wednesday at 19.00/07.00 pm GMT
every Sunday at 17.00/05.00 om GMT


The date for the next Live Online Video INTRODUCTION Meditation (Zen) is
April 3rd, 2011, at 16.00/04.00 pm GMT

Check your local time here:    




Sign Up!

On Meditation

On my way to meditation, I travel, I dance, I sing, I live and I love the world. But today, whenever I can, I appreciate more to be alone to drink the inner silence, it is so fulfilling and so sweet.

Dharma

Looking for Lasting Happiness?

Start Searching Inside Yourself

Lasting happiness is not out of reach. In fact, it's right where most people don't want to look -- inside.

The fact that you will only find lasting happiness by looking inside yourself explains why most people can’t find it. Most people spend their lives looking outside of the self for happiness, rather than starting the search inside. This truth is at the heart of the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, Neale Donald Walsch, Tony Robbins and many others.

What Stops a Person from Looking Inside

The most obvious block to finding happiness is whatever it is that stops you from looking inside yourself. People don’t want to turn and face what is hunting them, not even if it is happiness itself. It is easier to run away from emotions by watching TV, being endlessly busy, self-medicating with drugs and alcohol, or sleeping. Even pretending to be happy is a way of avoiding finding out what is going on under the surface.

Meditation and Everyday Life

Meditation is a wonderful path to stillness, and it, too, can be a way of avoiding feeling emotion. In fact, much of meditation aims at teaching the individual how to put the mind and emotions into a state of emptiness. True, it is a great way to clear negative emotions and access peace, joy and sweet liberation, as Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, author of Getting in the Gap and many other books, demonstrates. And yet, the challenge is always to come back to everyday experience and maintain that peace or happiness. Awareness will reveal a dependency if the first thought when faced with a challenging experience is “If only I could meditate right now.”

Staying Inside the Emotion

It is not the meditating that gets you where you need to go, but its exact opposite -- staying inside the negative emotion long enough for it to lose its power over you. This can take a minute, or even less, if you have learned that negative emotion is just energy which will dissipate completely if you let it come and go, and don’t act on it, don’t feed it. Eckhart Tolle speaks of this eloquently in A New Earth - Awakening to your Life's Purpose.

Memories and Emotions

Strong emotions are usually associated with specific memories. The body holds onto these memories. During a Journey process the person is guided to empty out the emotions in the context of that memory. The emptying out can lead to a watershed moment of release. Healing starts from the instant the body reaches forgiveness for whatever caused the pain. This does not mean that the behavior that caused the pain is condoned or that it is considered in any way acceptable. Rather, the person feeling the pain is freed from the associative link, through the act of forgiveness.

Baby Steps

If you are afraid to face what is inside of you because it causes you fear, then you also cut yourself off from access to the happiness and joy that is inside of you. Like a baby learning to walk, the first steps are the hardest. Trusting that this is the way to go is essentially a choice. It is a choice to trust that people like Tolle and Walsch are telling the truth – that lasting happiness is available to you if you are willing to look for it inside yourself.

Lesley Strutt

Dates for this week's free Live Video Meditation (Zen)

"I could tell that you seeing meditation as a something "to do" and that there should be a result to obtain.Trust me when I say there is huge value is being quiet and attaining nothing. Think of it as a mental rest from everything else you are doing and in that rest, you are allowing your mindbody to recharge as it needs to. There is nothing you have to do but sit and know that you are benefiting from doing so."(Eric Reynolds)


The dates for this week's Live Video Meditation (Zen) are

Thursday, March 17th, 2011 at 19.00/07.00 pm GMT,
and
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 at 17.00/05.00 pm GMT      

Sign Up!

Spiritual Wisdom

I have entered the deep mountains to silence and beauty; in a profound valley beneath high cliffs, I sit under the old pine trees. Doing zazen in my rustic cottage is peaceful, lonely and truly comfortable.

Gengaku

Spiritual Wisdom

Whatever the tradition, years of practice are necessary before an opening occurs and you finally realize the absurdity of trying to achieve anything. This search for truth or enlightenment is the barrier itself that separates us from what we seek.

Dennis Genpo Merzel

Experience Zen

Free LIVE Introduction to Online Zen Meditation 
Sunday, March 6th, 2011, 04.00 pm/16.00 GMT 

Register 

Spiritual Wisdom

Man is ignorant and blind, and he wants to remain ignorant and blind, because to come inwards looks like entering a chaos. And it is so; inside you have created a chaos. You have to encounter it and go through it. Courage is needed - courage to be oneself, and courage to move inwards. I have not come across a greater courage than that - the courage to be meditative.

Osho

Free Live Introduction Online Meditation (Zen)

Interested in learning about Zen Meditation - without leaving home?
Go to http://conta.cc/f3aXT7 
 

Spiritual Wisdom

The light is in your heart.
It is pointless to seek elsewhere.
The sacred mountain is in your heart.
Everyone has a magic temple inside,
just meditate inside.

Nan Huai Chin

Free Live Online Meditation (Zen)

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Spiritual Wisdom

The Way is not difficult, we only lose ourselves in our choices.
By trying to accept this and reject that, our minds never recognize the truth.
Do not get carried away by the karmic wheel. Do not stop either in emptiness.
Keep a quiet heart, all duality evaporates spontaneously.

Seng Tsan

Spiritual Wisdom

Think of a window: it's a hole in a wall but through it the whole room fills with light. Similarly, when the mind is open and free from his own thoughts, life unfolds effortlessly, and the world is filled with light.

Chuang Tzu

Free Live Online Meditation (Zen)

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Tricky Mind

The things we are afraid of seem to be like high mountains to climb.
When we have gone through them they were in fact very small hills.
Tricky mind.

Shanti

New: Introduction to Meditation (Zen) Online at your own Schedule

Interested in learning about meditation? Couldn't make the last Live Online Meditation Introduction ? Visit Meditation Introduction At My Own Schedule

Dr. Martin Luther King on Violence

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate. In fact violence merely increases the hate. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
--Dr. Martin Luther King

Particular Moments

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection?
Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Free Live Online Meditation (Zen)

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Words of Wisdom

Existence becomes more and more available to you the more you share it in your bliss, in your joy, in your laughters, in your silences, in your meditation.

Osho

Spiritual Wisdom

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers:
by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's self one becomes pure.
The pure and the impure come from oneself: no man can purify another.

The Dhammapada

Free Live Online Meditation

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

On Meditation

Meditation is not an effort against the mind. It is a way of understanding the mind. It is a very loving way of witnessing the mind.

Dharma

Free Online Introduction Meditation (Zen)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which they were created" (Albert Einstein)

"Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth. They are looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love, while they have a treasure within that not only includes all those thing but is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer." (Eckhart Tolle)

"There is nowhere to arrive in meditation, nothing to achieve, nothing to get. It is simply sitting quietly with yourself and letting everything be as it is. This is surprisingly difficult since the mind is so habitually busy. I could tell that you seeing meditation as a something "to do" and that there should be a result to obtain.Trust me when I say there is huge value is being quiet and attaining nothing. Think of it as a mental rest from everything else you are doing and in that rest, you are allowing your mindbody to recharge as it needs to. There is nothing you have to do but sit and know that you are benefiting from doing so." (Eric Reynolds)

Allow yourself to open to meditation, then trust your natural responses; and everything will take its place:

Free Online Event Introduction to Meditation, Zen & Leadership

Feb. 6th, 2011, 05.00 pm/17.00 GMT

http://conta.cc/eOinfq

Spiritual Wisdom

The gift of Truth conquers all gifts.
The taste of Truth conquers all sweetness.
The Joy of Truth conquers all pleasures.
The loss of desires conquers all sorrows.

The Dhammapada

Free Online Meditation

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Zen Wisdom

Thought is a language that has no sound,
while words are the symbols of a language.
When language and thinking are excessive,
they become a hindrance to wisdom.

Zen

On Meditation

While meditating I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not.
There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty.
When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there.
There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Spiritual Wisdom

No more nonsense!
Lose yourself, and the hell of your heart becomes a heaven.
Lose yourself, and anything can be accomplished.
Your selfishness is an untrained colt.

Hakim Sanai

Spiritual Wisdom

Seek no reward for any labour done.
The labour itself is reward sufficient to the labourer who loves is labour.

Mirdad

On Meditation

Meditation consists in undoing the results of the false working of imagination, or dropping the folds of the veil of personality, which has created a sense of unassailable separateness and irredeemable isolation.

Dharma

On Meditation

The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Spiritual Wisdom

Remember, life is not made of great things, it is made of very small things. In the early morning, sipping a cup of tea, do it totally, as if this is the last cup of tea you will ever sip again. Take each moment and squeeze the whole juice of it.

Osho

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Find the dates for the next meditation sessions at

Free Online Meditation (Zen)

Spiritual Wisdom

Everything is dependent on everything else,
everything is connected, nothing is separate.
Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go.

G.I. Gurdjieff

On meditation

While meditating if we force our breath to be too long or too short we're not balanced, the mind won't be at peace. Don't get concerned over how long or short, weak or strong it is, just note it. Know it's there. Simply let it be.

Vipassana meditation

Our Center

Sadness, anger, envy or fear have nothing bad in itself: a painful emotion indicates only that we left the center.
When you are at peace, the whole universe is at peace. What seemed like a cacophony becomes like a heavenly music : a symphony for an alone mind.

Stephen Mitchell