Meditation Tip

For penetrating to the depths of one's own true self nature, and for attaining a vitality valid on all occasions, nothing can surpass meditation in the midst of activity.

Hakuin

Meditation Thought

Our true-nature is beyond all categories.
Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself, hence the real You cannot be found through logical deduction or intellectual analysis or endless imagining.

Roshi

By being with yourself

By being with yourself ... by watching yourself in your daily life with alert interest; with the intent to understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captives energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind. Wisdom is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of wisdom.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Spiritual Wisdom

If your mind is not clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life.

WuMen

Meditation Tip

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind: G. K. Gystso

Meditation Thought

When mind and vital energy are united in emptiness, right action takes place of itself, independently. Ittokusai

Wherever you go there you are

We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be, without having to run around doing things all the time. Our actions are all too frequently driven rather than undertaken in awareness, driven by those perfectly ordinary thoughts and impulses that run through the mind like a coursing river, if not a waterfall. We get caught up in the torrent and it winds up submerging our lives as it carries us to places we may not wish to go and may not even realize we are headed for.
Meditation means learning how to get out this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than tyrannize us. This process doesn't magically happen by itself. It takes energy. We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment "practice" or "meditation". (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

Spiritual Wisdom

"Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness." NN

Meditation Tip

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."~Confucius

Meditation Thought

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge."~Boorstin

Bookrecommendation: The Book of Wisdom

Osho is known around the world for his pioneering contribution to meditation — the science of inner transformation — with the unique approach of his "Osho Active Meditations" acknowledging the accelerated pace of the contemporary world and bringing meditation into modern life. Based on the Seven Points of Mind Training by the 11th-century Buddhist mystic Atisa, The Book of Wisdom removes the dust of tradition that has gathered around meditation, conveying the essential science and methodology of the practice with a freshness and spontaneity that is rarely found in contemporary spiritual works. The book is a guide for inner discipline and transformation that is also highly accessible, incorporating light, often humorous question-and-answer sessions between the author and his audience that help readers make the practical connection between spiritual theory and meditation as a lifestyle.

Spiritual Wisdom

As long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain awakening. Bodhidharma

Meditation Tip

It is the controlling ego that expects other people and situations to be different from what they are. N.N.

Meditation Thought

No matter how much we seek we will never realise it! When everything is inactive, then bright stillness will manifest by itself. Shen Hui

Stillness is a Powerful Action

“Activity conquers cold, but stillness conquers heat.” ~ Lao Tzu

It’s a bias of our culture that stillness is regarded as lazy, as being stuck in inaction, as a negative.

It’s not. It’s an action, and a powerful one.

What’s more, it can change your day, and in doing so change your life.

You’re in the middle of a frazzled day, swamped by work and meetings and emails and interruptions, or hassled by kids and phone calls and errands and chores.

You pause. Stay still for a minute, and breathe. You close your eyes, and find a stillness within yourself. This stillness spreads to the rest of your body, and to your mind. It calms you, centers you, focuses you on what you’re doing right now, not on all you have to do and all that has happened.

The stillness becomes a transformative action.

Stillness can be a powerful answer to the noise of others. It can be a way to push back against the buzz of the world, to take control. It can remind you of what’s important.

How to Practice
Stillness, oddly, doesn’t come naturally to many people. So practice:

Stillness is a Powerful Action

Spiritual Wisdom

It is the controlling ego that expects other people and situations to be different from what they are.

Meditation Tip

When mind and vital energy are united in emptiness, right action takes place of itself, independently. Ittokusai

Meditation Thought

The ordinary man seeks honour, not dishonour, cherishing
success and abominating failure, loving life, whilst fearing
death. The sage does not recognise these things, so lives
his life quite simply.

- Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching" Chapter 13