It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.
Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment
Forever is not an idea or a concept, it is reality. All of the things here come from forever. We call forever nirvana in Zen.
Beyond all of this is something else, perfection; not just as an ideation, but as a living reality. Even though it may just be an idea for you, hold that idea in your mind.
Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
To perfect your nature doesn't mean to have some idea of what a perfect person is and to simply be that. That doesn't work.
Some people go into tantra with the idea, sort of an intellectual approach, that now they can just do everything and stay high. That doesn't work at all.
To be fixated on Sahaja Samadhi is to be fixated. To be fixated on the idea of being not fixated is fixation too. All these ideas and definitions about enlightenment become silly.
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success, or the clinging to it, is an attachment.
The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.
If you seek enlightenment, then career is a very important idea on your agenda.
The ideas that we have about self are an aggregate within a state of mind, and they chain us to a state of mind.
The idea is easy to understand. All of life is a dream. You have dreamed everything that you are and everything you are aware of.
Don't try and understand this with your mind. There will be no absolute knowing, no certainty in these thoughts and philosophies and ideas.
There won't be emptiness. Emptiness is just another idea, another illusion.
Women must work doubly hard to overcome their conditioning in order to become enlightened. They must erase both conscious and unconscious ideas of sexual inferority that have been programmed into their awareness.
Men, through the ideas they have, project a field of attention that limits women.
We have ideas of God and nirvana or truth or enlightenment. These ideas will go away in nirvana because the suffusion is so complete and intense that nothing can be remembered.
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.
To meditate what you need to do is free yourself from your ideas and your thoughts. All of the higher dimensional planes, the higher realities, the infinite cosmos itself is beyond thought.
We were imprinted with a value system as young children. The sensory experiences of life can trigger and stimulate a variety of associative thoughts and ideas.
Stopping thought also involves shifting your values. Thought is stimulated by ideas that we have about life and the world.
The problem is with any practice is that it is a practice. That is why people don't win. The reason why people don't win is they get stuck in ideas, habits, and ways of seeing life.
