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"Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one."
"Thought is a means of concealing Truth."
"The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales."
"There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket ing into outer space,or collecting botanical specimens in jungles.But if you value knowledge & the actual delight of exploration more than mere duration of uneventful life,you are willing to take the risks."
"The anitya doctrine is, again, not quite the simple assertion that the world is impermanent, but rather that the more one grasps at the world, the more it changes."
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
"Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency."
"More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose."
"Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol."
"The menu is not the meal."
"In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness."
"We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time"
"When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind."
"The wake doesn't drive the ship"
"The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality."
"And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning."
"Spiritual awakening is the difficult process whereby the increasing realisation that everything is as wrong as it can be flips suddenly into the realisation that everything is as right is it can be. Or better, everything is as It as it can be."
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."