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    The only way you will advance spiritually is through humility.

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    Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.

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    The outer form of Buddhism, of practice, is etiquette - a series of ways to live intelligently that keep you alive, awake and happy, wakeful.

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    The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

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    The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

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    The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.

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    The perfect view of existence comes from an unclouded, uncluttered life and mind whereby the radiance of perfect attention of the mind of the universe floods us at every moment. This is Buddhism. This is being on the path.

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    The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.

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    The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.

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    The person in the business suit who works on Wall Street, who does their work perfectly, is probably evolving a lot faster, if they also meditate.

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    "The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

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    The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

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    The place that you gain the most power is within your own mind. Stopping thought generates power. That is why people meditate. The longer you can stop thought, the more power you gain.

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    The point with Buddhism is that it doesn't just tell you to be good, it tells you how. It doesn't just say, "Don't be angry," it shows us the methods to help us not to be angry. It gives techniques for everything that it advises us to cultivate, and all the negative qualities we need to overcome and transform.

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    The planes of consciousness are correlated to what we call the chakras, which are located along the shushumna.

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    The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

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    The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

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    The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

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    The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The third eye is the center of wisdom, the Agni chakra.

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    The power that enables us to transform our awareness is the release of kundalini. All yoga, either directly or indirectly, all Buddhism, relates to the release of the kundalini energy.

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    The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness.

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    The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

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    The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

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    The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

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    The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

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    The problem with love is attachment; love makes you dependent. Unattached love - you love for the hell of it.

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    The process is not simply of constructing a new tonal from scratch, but reordering the one you have.

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    The purpose of all of this is not to walk around with new vocabulary words, but to cause you to speculate on the marvel of your own being.

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    The purpose of life is to love, not necessarily to be loved.

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    The purpose of life is happiness. What else could it possibly be?

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    The quality of time actually changes throughout the day and night. Some dimensions are more time-specific, in that they only interact with the physical dimension they touch during specific times of the night or day.

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    The real dance is within; it is within your mind. Everything is inside your mind. God is inside your mind.

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    There are all these people running all over the planet who don't see what life is for, what their own lives are about, because they don't see psychically. Therefore, they miss most of the beauty of life.

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    There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat.

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    The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before.

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    The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you unhappy from your mind, to clarify your emotions.

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    There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you.

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    There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

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    There are also places of power that reference the fourth and fifth chakras, which are places of balance, and places of power that reference the sixth and seventh chakras, which are places of wisdom.

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    There are billions of people out there walking around and they don't meditate. You can tell. They are not having a good time with their lives. People are not happy.

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    There are certain protective forces in the universe that do watch over us, but the innocent die too.

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    There are countless dimensions filled with beings of other orders. Now this may sound peculiar to some people, but it was only several hundred years ago that we invented something called the microscope. Since then worlds whose existence we did not suspect have become commonplace

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    There are clearly people for whom Stoicism immediately "clicks," it comes natural, and others for whom it doesn't. Then again, Stoicism isn't the only positive philosophy of life. Buddhism is an excellent alternative, if it speaks more clearly to one's personality or cultural background.

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    There are different pathways that lead to enlightenment. We could say that everyone's life is one of the pathways. Your life is a pathway that leads to enlightenment.

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    There are dimensions of power, there are dimensions of knowledge, and there are dimensions of confusion. The universe is a very, very big place. To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

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    There are different worlds, endless worlds, and different beings come from different worlds. In my particular case, I come from the stillness. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. I know it quite well.

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    There are endless planes of attention, endless realities and endless mind states. They're like collections of atoms and protons and neutrons, nuclei. They just go on forever. They're plasma, they're fluid ... they're alive.

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    There are chakras in the hands; you've seen me use those quite frequently when I meditate. I project the shakti, the kundalini, through the chakras in the hands to people I meditate with.

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    There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

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    There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.