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Brother Phap Hai • Nothing To It: Ten Ways to Be at Home with Yourself
The most important elements of the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Buddha’s teachings, and the Bhagavad Gita were compiled by Sri Patanjali around two thousand years ago into the text we now refer to as the Yoga Sutras. This is the key text of Raja (Royal) Yoga, which describes the complete yoga path, a scientifically organized spiritual technology for
... See moreJennie Lee • True Yoga: Practicing With the Yoga Sutras for Happiness & Spiritual Fulfillment
No matter how deeply you’ve seen something, no matter how much you think you know something, stay in beginner’s mind. Don’t get rigid. No matter how great a revelation you may have had, no matter how great an opening in the core and depth of your being, if you stay in innocence, in the mind that’s very light, that never takes its ideas as truth, th
... See moreAdyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
the Upanishads are not parts of a whole like chapters in a book. Each is complete in itself, an ecstatic snapshot of transcendent Reality.
Eknath Easwaran • The Upanishads (Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality Book 2)
This nonduality of the mind, in which it is no longer divided against itself, is samadhi, and because of the disappearance of that fruitless threshing around of the mind to grasp itself, samadhi is a state of profound peace. This is not the stillness of total inactivity, for, once the mind returns to its natural state, samadhi persists at all times
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
“Dear one, do you see the cow on the hillside? She is eating grass in order to make my yogurt, and I am now eating the yogurt to make a Dharma talk.” Somehow, the cow will offer today’s Dharma talk. As I drank the cow’s milk, I was a child of the cow. The Buddha recommends we live our daily life in this way, seeing everything in the light of interb
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • The Heart Of Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy and Liberation
Free from matter-consciousness, free from the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time, a master transfers his body of light with equal ease over or through the light rays of earth, water, fire, and air.
Paramahansa Yogananda • Autobiography of a Yogi (Self-Realization Fellowship)
He told me that he was sure anyone could touch awakening in whatever work he or she enjoyed the most. The most important thing, he said, is to just be ourselves and live our lives as deeply and mindfully as we can.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: mindful techniques for peaceful living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders
“The practice of compassionate living (dharma),” said gurudev, “is not something other than everyday, ordinary, simple and mundane actions. This practice is in walking, in talking, in eating, in sleeping, in washing the bowl, in taking care of clothes, and in relating to all other beings. Compassion is not a matter of scholarship: you live it rathe
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