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the taste of buddhahood is wakefulness.
Awareness is the difference between death and life.
Life is the goal and awareness is the methodology, the technique to attain it.
Never repent for the past! Live in the moment.
upward is synonymous with inward and downward is synonymous with outward.
Bliss is the goal, and awareness is the path toward it.
repentance is also part of sin.
You cannot be thinking in the present. The moment you start thinking, it is already the past.
All buddhas have laughed when they awaken.
Lao Tzu said, “Everybody seems to be wise except me. Everybody seems to be very clever except me—I am a fool!”
Says Lao Tzu, “If the majority doesn’t laugh at you, be aware that you must be saying something wrong. If the majority laughs, only then are you saying something true. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of your being a wise man; otherwise, there is no possibility.”
Die to time so that you are resurrected into eternity Die to mind so you become alive in consciousness. Die to thinking so that you are born into awareness.
Whatsoever you are doing, go on doing one thing inside continuously: be aware of yourself doing it.
a seeker must know that he is not yet.
Danger has appeal only because in danger you sometimes feel centered.
war must continue because only in war is a self sometimes felt—a center is felt—because war is danger.
The whole Eastern methodology can be reduced to one word: witnessing. And the whole Western methodology can be reduced to one thing: analyzing. Analyzing, you go round and round. Witnessing, you simply get out of the circle.
The Eastern emphasis is on the sky, and the Western emphasis is on the clouds.
when you act, the act is always total. When you react, it can never be total.
Only when you act from the center is your act total.
Every word is a judgment. Language is burdened with judgment; language can never be impartial. The moment you use a word, you have judged.
If you are there without thinking, just facing something, it is witnessing.
Nonverbal experience is really experience.
whatsoever you are doing, try to do it nonverbally.
If your fingers just move on the rosary with no thinking, it becomes a meditation.
The ego is just accumulated past.
the more mind moves into language, the farther away it goes from the center.
Buddha is reported to have said, “Don’t miss even a single breath. If a single breath is missed physiologically, you will be dead, and if a single breath is missed in awareness, you will be missing the center, you will be dead inside.”
When the mind is without thought, it is meditation.
Mind is nothing but the absence of your presence.
Mind is a disturbance of consciousness, just as waves are a disturbance of the ocean.
No-mind does not arise by stopping thinking. When the thinking is no more, no-mind is.
Don’t try to stop the mind or the thinking—just watch it, allow it. Allow it total freedom. Let it run as fast as it wants; you don’t try in any way to control it. You just be a witness.
Life has no obligation to fit with your conclusions.
The only sin is unawareness, and the only virtue is awareness.
Character is stagnant; it is a dirty pool of water. Consciousness is a river.
Character is painting the circumference, consciousness is transformation of the center.
The moment you know you are mad, you are no longer mad.
The moment you know you are ignorant, you have become wise.
Be in the world, but don’t allow the world to be in you.
When you come home, you come home—as if the whole world has disappeared.
