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All I can say is that these cult stories are totally untrue, are without any foundation, and trade on a deep bias against Westerners who dare to embrace an Eastern belief-system.Collection: Buddhism
Obviously, following my convictions has come at a personal price, but they are important enough that I have been willing to endure the abuse.Collection: Buddhism
I feel a number of people who will never be students whom I'm corresponding with inwardly.Collection: Buddhism
There are people I feel in other parts of the world who will never meet me or hear my name. They are probably better off. I help them inwardly. I feel their souls seeking light, and I help all who come.Collection: Buddhism
When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.Collection: Buddhism
I'm always waiting for you, hoping that you'll be really interested, that you'll try completely. In every life I wait for you. I've always been waiting and I always will.Collection: Buddhism
It's not my light to begin with, in a sense; it's the light of God, the light of eternity. So take all you want!Collection: Buddhism
Buddhism is the process of getting to that part of us that is always eternally happy.Collection: Buddhism
The study of Buddhism is essentially the study of modification, how we modify the state of mind we're in, how we modify the realm we're in.Collection: Buddhism
Buddhism suggests that you have that choice; you are in the driver's seat. Hertz or somebody has put you there. You have an absolute choice about what you experience in your mind.Collection: Buddhism
When you abuse willpower you waste it. There really is not an infinite supply of it at your disposal. There is an infinite supply of it in the universe.Collection: Buddhism
The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.Collection: Buddhism
The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.Collection: Buddhism
When one side or the other predominates, there's an imbalance and there's unhappiness.Collection: Buddhism
In the world order, if the nagual dominates and not the tonal, then we'll live in times of fear and superstition.Collection: Buddhism
Reason is necessary. It is necessary to deal with the world.Collection: Buddhism
A person who is insane has no sense of their place; they've lost that ability, which our friend don Juan describes as the tonal.Collection: Buddhism
You need your reason to pass through the world and also to experience the nagual, because if you become all nagual, we'll lock you away in an institution.Collection: Buddhism
The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.Collection: Buddhism
Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.Collection: Buddhism
Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.Collection: Buddhism
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.Collection: Buddhism
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.Collection: Buddhism
There are two worlds, the world of desire and the world of enlightenment. The world of enlightenment doesn't go anywhere. It is endless, luminous perfection. The world of desire leads to more desire.Collection: Buddhism
The experience of going to the other side to nirvana clarifies and simplifies your view of all things. You see the world with greater clarity, because it is not obscured by illusions.Collection: Buddhism
The comedies, the tragedies we see played out on this earth before us, don't last. But we are eternal spirits. These events will come and go, but the planes of light and nirvana will always be there.Collection: Buddhism
Something in you wants to go beyond, wants to be free from this endless round of perception. Enlightenment is that.Collection: Buddhism
Outside of nirvana, the planes begin, the subtlest planes of light that vibrate fastest, all the way on down through the astral realms through the physical and so on.Collection: Buddhism
The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.Collection: Buddhism
Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.Collection: Buddhism
Universes collide and conjoin inside us and beyond all is nirvana, the final, absolute resting place of the soul.Collection: Buddhism
Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.Collection: Buddhism
There are two sides to a person's being - the superconscious and the conscious. These have reverberations in the popular works of Carlos Castaneda, in the don Juan terminology of the tonal and the nagual.Collection: Buddhism
The tonal is the sense of place. It is order and reason in a world of chaos.Collection: Buddhism
The world is always chaos, but we pretend that it's not because it makes us feel better. In doing so we're able to go through it in a specific manner and form: That's the tonal.Collection: Buddhism
Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.Collection: Buddhism
The nagual is the unknown. It cannot be talked about, it can only be witnessed.Collection: Buddhism
The nagual is the superconscious. It's nirvana. It's the unknown that cannot be explained or reasoned.Collection: Buddhism
The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.Collection: Buddhism
When we go to the desert, it's pure nagual. There you witness stupendous and incredible acts of power that your reason cannot possibly deal with.Collection: Buddhism
The deeper side of the study occurs on levels of attention your mind is not aware of, but that your superconscious mind is - what don Juan calls the nagual.Collection: Buddhism
Occasionally in my travels I meet people who have pushed too far into the nagual. These individuals are not too balanced but they have made great journeys in the unknown.Collection: Buddhism
There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.Collection: Buddhism
Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.Collection: Buddhism
Your reason is your friend. It defends the island of your awareness. But you don't want your reason to rule everything.Collection: Buddhism
Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.Collection: Buddhism
Without wisdom, power tends to destroy the one who wields it.Collection: Buddhism
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.Collection: Buddhism
If you try to pull too much power through too soon, you will injure yourself.Collection: Buddhism