Bernie Glassman on Laughing at Yourself
“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning…look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”
— Bernie Glassman
Swami Sarvapriyananda on the Silence at the End of OM
“This vast literature…Upanishads and their commentaries and sub commentaries and sub sub commentaries and multiple magnificent structures of philosophies built upon it…they all reduce to OM and especially the SILENCE AT THE END OF OM.”
— Swami Sarvapriyananda
Roshi Jan Chozen Bays on Emergency Measures
“If our mind is headed in a direction that we know is leading to suffering and is already causing suffering, we need some emergency measures. And mantra is just such an emergency measure. It qualifies as distraction and it qualifies as substitution. So we take words that are wholesome… leading to our happiness… ultimately to our enlightenment. And we use those wholesome words to substitute for words that are causing us distress.”
— Roshi Jan Chozen Bays
Rupert Spira on Your True Nature
“The best contribution you can make to humanity…is to recognize your true nature and its inherent peace.“
— Rupert Spira
Zoketusu Norman Fischer on Life Continuing
“The most important thing about the teaching of rebirth is that life continues. That there is more to our lives than the little span of time between birth and death. The teaching of rebirth tells us that our life and death are significant beyond their appearance, more important than we know.“
— Zoketusu Norman Fischer
Jean Klein on Disappearing the Ego
“In silence, there is a total disappearance of the ego.“
— Jean Klein
Dogen on Simply Sitting
“Just sitting, with no deliberate thought, is the important aspect of serene reflection meditation.“
— Dogen
Sadhguru on Sound
“Every form in the creation has a corresponding sound. Sound is of the surface, silence is of the core. A space that is beyond creation, life and death, is referred to as nishabd, silence. In consciously aspiring for silence, there is a possibility of becoming silence.”
— Sadhguru
Rumi on Silence
“Silence gives answers.”
— Rumi
Dogen Zenji on Simply Sitting
“Just sitting, with no deliberate thought, is the important aspect of serene reflection meditation.”
— Dogen Zenji