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Power doesn't make you happy. Actually, power without knowledge and balance is problematic. Power is something that will automatically follow when you have knowledge. The two are really the same, in a certain sense.

Power comes from the navel center. If you meditate for an hour or so a day and you focus on that sphere, you will release a tremendous power that will enter your body. We call it the chi.

Power either goes up or down. Your thoughts are the harness of power. It is necessary to think positive thoughts, not just wait for them to occur, but to introduce them.

Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.

Power, people are obsessed with it. You can take a nice person and turn them into a slob, into an insane being, craving power, destroying anything that stands in their way.

Practicing zazen and mindfulness constantly and correctly, over a period of time, can bring strength and clarity to your finite mind and eventually give you access to your infinite mind.

Power will take us beyond the gravity field of the imprint.

Practice being happy. Work at it. It's a new role, I realize, but you'll get it. The auditions will be coming up very soon. So get on top of it. I'm sure you will get the part.

Practice humility constantly. Whenever you start to think well of yourself, push those thoughts aside. Whenever you think ill of yourself, push those thoughts aside.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment.

Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

Prana is an element of energy. Energy is a manifestation of a certain principle which in Indian cosmology they call shakti, or spiritual power. Don't worry about the words too much.

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!

Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

Psychic perception is a much more efficient and accurate method of seeing and knowing reality.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

Purity is also developed in action. Purity is developed when we love.

Purity is essential for just your own peace of mind; otherwise, you'll go through this world like a mad person, howling and screaming and cursing, never satisfied, never happy.

Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.

Pure and simple, balance is happiness.

Purity is developed through caring. You need to care about light and the matters of light, truth, religion and spirituality.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

Purity is receptivity, the ability to sit and wait patiently, for as long as necessary, for the coming of the light.

Purity is something that comes from another world. It's a radiance that enters into this world of transformation and change.

Purity is the ability to see dharma in its manifold forms in any plane or loka.

Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect.

Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light.

Put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever. That's the total purpose of a monk.

Put a smile on your face. Don't sit in the waiting room of life. Go do something, happily.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

Real Buddhism is about meditation.

Real humility is something that no one else will see. No one will know about your humility, if it's real.

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness

Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle.

Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience.

Reality does appear to exist, there does appear to be birth, youth, people appear to have children. But all of it's a dream. These are isolated moments that are only connected by perception. There is no separation.

Really, whatever I was seeking and looking into in those days like creative arts, chant, the muse being in touch with the muse for poetry and writing and music. It's all part of the spirit and if we look particularly at Hinduism and Buddhism, the tantric stream of those traditions totally embraces all aspects of human life and life on this world.

Reciprocity, a symbiotic relationship, is a relationship in which two people have worked out certain terms. I am using you in certain ways; you are using me in certain ways. That is a balanced relationship.

Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there…the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

Relationships are a proving ground for love.

Religion is either something we scorn because we are too rational or it's the realm of the fanatic who insists that their God and their religion is the only way and everyone else is dammed.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.

Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.