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Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of beingness with itself.

Sit quietly and open up to spirit.

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow.

If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.

Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

People are scared to empty their minds_x000D__x000D_fearing that they will be engulfed by the void._x000D__x000D_What they don't realize is that_x000D__x000D_their own mind is the void.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

Each season has its own beauty. _x000D__x000D_To practice meditation is to open the mind so that all of them may be enjoyed. _x000D__x000D_When each season comes we should enjoy it; _x000D__x000D_& when it goes, we should let it go and open our mind to the next season.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit_x000D__x000D_ is to stop seeking something more or better or different, _x000D__x000D_and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, _x000D__x000D_you will recognize that what you are running from does not exist, _x000D__x000D_and what you are running toward is already here.

The natural purity of our mind is of no use to us if we are not aware of it, _x000D__x000D_and if we do not integrate it with our moving mind. _x000D__x000D_If we realize our innate purity, but only integrate with it from time to time, we are not totally awakened._x000D__x000D_ Being in total integration all the time is final realization

Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet _x000D__x000D_which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. _x000D__x000D_Likewise, a balanced meditative practice in the course of a socially engaged way of life _x000D__x000D_heightens your psychological immune system, so that you are less vulnerable to mental imbalances of all kinds.

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. _x000D__x000D_Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. _x000D__x000D_Practice the path of meditation and compassion. _x000D__x000D_Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.