“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.” NeedsBodyMovingSpiritSportsPracticePathMeditationHealthBuddhismYour BodyAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.” PathMeditationBuddhismEnlightenmentPath To Enlightenment Author:Frederick Lenz
“Zen is a very quick path. Zen is the path of meditation. The word Zen means emptiness or fullness, meditation. Meditation is the quickest path to enlightenment.” MeanPathMeditationEnlightenmentEmptinessFullnessIntroductionPath To Enlightenment Author:Frederick Lenz
“Zen is the path that focuses the most upon meditation. It is almost exclusively a path of meditation.” PathMeditationIntroduction Author:Frederick Lenz
“All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.” SpiritualGrowthPathMeditationMajorsTraditionPersonal GrowthEmphasisGreat Spiritual Author:David Fontana
“Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states of consciousness into ways of imagining the world, or seeing a world beyond this world, or seeing a world beyond this world that I might not have gotten to unless I discovered meditation and a very deep, intense spiritual path based on contemplation and meditation.” WorldWayKindStatesMightSpiritualConsciousnessPathMeditationSeeingThis WorldDrugIntenseContemplationAlteredSpiritual PathVery DeepPortalStates Of ConsciousnessAltered StatesAltered States Of Consciousness Author:Anne Lamott
“I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.” NaturalPathMeditationUnderstood Author:Anne Lamott
“I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I also teach Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist mediation, I have a very eclectic approach to the subject.” GivenTeachPathFourMeditationSubjectsBuddhismApproachNobleBuddhistRamaEclecticMediation Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.” WorldWayOrderPathMeditationThis LifeLiberationConcentrationLiberated Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.” DesireDealsPathMeditationOffersFrustrationConcentrationAversionOperating Systems Author:Frederick Lenz
“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.” IfsWantBookReadingPracticePathMeditationWalkingTravelSubstitutes Author:Bill Porter
“In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.” FirstsStoriesThreePracticePathMeditationStageMoralityTake TimeLife Story Book:How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life Source: How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life
“When we pay attention, whatever we are doing...is transformed and becomes a part of our spiritual path. We begin to notice details and textures that we never noticed before everyday life becomes clearer, sharper, and at the same time more spacious.” SpiritualPayAttentionPathMeditationEverydayDetailsPay AttentionTransformedEveryday LifeTextureSpiritual PathCalmingMeditation MindMeditation Life Author:Rick Fields
“Clearly the path of mitzvot is a form of meditation. The intention to act impeccably requires complete dedication and unwavering attention. I was also impressed with LUzzato's insistence that mitzvot practice is joyful.” FormAttentionPracticePathMeditationIntentionDedicationJoyfulImpressedInsistenceUnwavering Author:Sylvia Boorstein
“If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.” IfsKindIdeasDifferentHappensPracticePathMeditationGoes OnTraditionCarefulFamiliarBuddhistNo IdeaBe CarefulVisualizationMantrasMixing Author:Sakyong Mipham
“My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.” LightPainMovingJoyCareersDarknessPathMeditationJourneyAdventureYogaOngoingUnfoldingDarkness To Light Author:MC Yogi