Constant Awareness
Mindfulness, is the sense of constant presence of mind, the attentiveness and hereness that is so essential for real, active observation of the world.
Follow the Path.
Follow that which cannot be followed and search for that which cannot found. Become what never ends and never begins — that is who you really are.
Separated from Self.
That I am one and am separated and different from everybody else, that I am Siddhartha; and about nothing in the world do I know less than about myself, about Siddhartha.
Wisdom Within.
Impress upon yourself your inherent wisdom. That which wishes to teach us at all moments, that which yearns to guide and show the nature of our souls. Seek it and it shall seek you.
Compassions Speaks.
Compassion is very detailed and precise, so it is necessary to have dscriminating awareness wisdom, which does not mean discriminating in terms of acceptance and rejection, but simply seeing things as they are.
Difference Everywhere.
Walk gently, leaving tracks only where they can make a difference. Where no difference can be made, walk without leaving tracks. This is how the sage passes through life: unseen and insivible, yet effecting change everywhere.
Stone in Water.
When you throw a stone into the water, it finds the quickest way to the bottom of the water. It is the same when Siddhartha has an aim, a goal. Siddhartha does nothing; he waits, he thinks, he fasts, but he goes through the affairs of the world like the stone through water, without doing anything, without bestirring himself; he is drawn and lets himself fall.
Meditate.
Meditate not because you’ll feel holy, but so you’ll know that there’s no difference between the times that you sit and the times you don’t.
A Falling Leaf.
Most people, Kamala, are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
Knowledge.
Knowledge is a function of being. When there is change in the being of the knower, there is a corresponding change in the nature and amount of knowing.
Truth.
Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.
Masks of God.
Myths are the ‘masks of God’, through which men everywhere have sought to relate themselves to the wonders of existence.
The Journey.
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know.
A Way or Path.
They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. Where there’s a way or path, it is someone else’s path; each human being is a unique phenomenon.
Right View.
Right view, the first step on the buddha-dharma path, begins not so much in seeing as in realizing the nature of what you’re looking for.
Awaken.
You cannot actually learn Truth from anyone. It’s seen only through your own resolve. If you do not resolve to awaken, there’s nothing a teacher can do for you.
The Eightfold Path.
The eight aspects of this path are right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right meditation.
Everlasting Happiness.
Nothing can bring you everlasting happiness, but you have it already.
Godhead.
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife does not cut itself, fire does not burn itself, light does not illuminate itself, it’s always an endless mystery to itself.
Sit Quietly.
Man was made to sit quietly and find the truth within.
Yoga.
Yoga means wholeness or the process of becoming whole at the deepest spiritual level.
Give Up.
When we forget what we should be, we find what we are. Give up becoming enlightened and enlightenment will become you.
Courage.
Have the courage to find your own way.
Happiness.
Avoid that which doesn’t bring happiness. It sounds so easy, yet when we look, we find that we run after many things that bring us suffering.
Fully.
When you walk, walk; when you eat, eat; and when you sit, sit. This is the way of Zen. Do what you do fully in each moment.
Change.
As we get older still, we understand that we can change no one, and simply look for the courage to change ourselves.