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“It’s like you were driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles for an important meeting. But along the way, you turned here and there to entertain yourself with the scenery. Somewhere along the line, without realizing it, you’re no longer moving north to south. Instead, you’re now headed east toward Denver! Once you go out horizontally into the intermediate realm, there is no end to the new and interesting stuff you can experience: encounters with angels or entities, psychic abilities, out-of-body experiences, bright lights or colors, past lives, weird internal sounds. The scenery is really cool, but you’re never going to make that important meeting.” TaYm Book:The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation Source: The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation
“The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity so they dissolve into energy, and then recolor that energy and radiate it out as unconditional love, moment by moment, through every pore of our being.” WorldFeelsMomentsPainEnergyMeditationExpressionMindfulnessUltimateUnconditional LoveUnconditionalEquanimity Author:Shinzen Young
“I think the problems of the world aren't caused by people coming together and saying «let's make problems». They're caused by people coming together and saying «let's make solutions» without having solved the problem of their own suffering.” PeopleThinkingWorldProblemTogetherYoungSufferingSolutionsComing Together Author:Shinzen Young
“Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim” MeditationConditionsClaimsIndependent Author:Shinzen Young
“As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.” WantLongLastsArise Author:Shinzen Young
“Suffering = Pain x Resistance” PainSufferingStrengthWork OutResistanceSuffering Pain Author:Shinzen Young
“Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.” PainSufferingBusinessCompassionShare Author:Shinzen Young