Meditation

Meditation means to me, witnessing on three levels: action of the body, thoughts of the mind, feelings of the heart. Once a person becomes aware of these three things, the fourth step happens on its own accord. You can call it his soul, his being, and it is the greatest bliss in existence. There is nothing above it.


Osho

Heaven and Hell (OSHO Meditation Minutes)

Book Recommendation

Experience Beyond Thinking: A Practical Guide to Buddhist Meditation

A simple guide to Buddhist meditation with easy-to-follow instructions on both sitting and walking meditation, plus insightful reflections on how to live a Buddhist way of life. Initially, Buddhist meditation is a process of freeing the mind of its entanglements, of learning how to undo the knots and getting beyond thinking. When we live with our minds full of thoughts, we don't sense much more than those thoughts; objects are not seen very clearly because the focus of our attention is directed towards what is in the mind rather than what is in front of us. Meditation allows us to see ourselves plainly as we are, as if standing before a large clear mirror. Nothing is hidden. When we do this, it is like waking up from a dream into a new way of life completely free of all self-imposed restrictions and conflicting states of mind.

Book Recommendation

The Pocket Zen Reader

This miniature book presents a thousand years of Zen teaching for the modern reader in a way that preserves the dynamic flavor of these talks, sayings, and records of heart-to-heart encounters. From the earliest adepts to the last of the great masters, The Pocket Zen Reader is a pocket-sized compendium of Zen at its best. This collection is edited by Thomas Cleary, the translator of over fifty volumes of Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian, and Islamic texts.

Food for Thought

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

- Ellen Burstyn

Meditation Thought

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there."

Rumi

Buddhist Wisdom

Standing or walking, sitting or lying down, during all these waking hours, let him establish mindfulness of good will, which men call the highest state!

- Buddha

A Taste of Freedom: Ajahn Chah

Entire text online: http://bit.ly/1SOmlg Very inspiring; strive diligently!

Meditation Tip

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

- Henry David Thoreau

Food for Thought

. . . a man can have no other vocation than to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. . . -- Albert Camus

Meditation Thought

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

- Henri Matisse

Leading from the Soul (by Lance Secretan)

Food for Thought

The truth indeed has never been preached by the Buddha, seeing that one has to realize it within oneself.

- Lamkara Sutra

Meditation Tip

Irrigators guide the water. Fletchers shape the arrow shaft. Carpenters shape the wood. The wise control themselves.

- Dhammapada

Food for Thought

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake

Food for Thought

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing, through one's head. "

-Mark Twain

Food for Thought

The more you try to fix, the more you find to fix. Only wholeness heals.

-- Alan Cohen