Yoga

 

Yoga is an exact science. It is a perfect, practical system of self-culture. It is the discipline of the mind, senses and the physical body. It helps the student to attain perfect concentration of the mind, ethical perfection, moral excellence and spiritual calmness. It is the master-key to unlock the realms of Peace and Bliss, Mystery and Miracle.

Yoga does not consist in sitting cross-legged for six hours or stopping the beatings of the heart or getting oneself buried underneath the ground for a week or a month; these are mere physical feats. Real Yoga is the attainment of the highest divine knowledge through conscious communion with God. The word Yoga comes from the Sanskrit root “Yuj” which means “to join.” Yoga is the science that teaches us the method of uniting the individual soul with the Supreme Soul, of merging the individual will in the Cosmic Will.

 

Swami Sivananda

Buddha-nature

 

 

 

We do not meditate to attain Buddha-nature — because, being ever-present, it is literally unattainable — rather, we meditate to express the Buddha-nature that we always already are.  

 

Suzuki-roshi

Iðkið ykkar leið!

And so, please practice! Please let that be your guide. And I believe that you will find, if your practice matures, that Spirit will reach down and bless your every word and deed, and you will be taken quite beyond yourself, and the Divine will blaze with the light of a thousand suns, and glories upon glories will be given unto you, and you will in every way be home. And then, despite all your excuses and all your objections, you will find the obligation to communicate your vision. And precisely because of that, you and I will find each other. And that will be the real return of Spirit to itself.  

Ken Wilber    

Stóri hugur II

Zazen practice is a simple and direct thing. When you give attention to the small mind, it grows and grows and grows. When you give attention to the Big Mind, you cultivate Big Mind. Our origin is Big Mind, so it has the spirit of giving you the inspiration you need. Big Mind is the only thing you can rely on.

 

Jakusho Kwong-roshi - No Beginning. No End.

 

 

Stóri hugur

 

Stóri hugur er opinn og fordómalaus. Sá hugur er hvorki bundinn tilfinningu né smekk eða því að verðmerkja alla hluti. Ef við leyfum Stóra hug að birtast í lífi okkar þýðir það þó ekki að við missum allan skilning eða töpum allri vitneskju eins og grænmeti. Yfirborð hins Stóra huga segir ekki allt. Þess vegna þurfum við að kafa dýpra til að meðtaka mikilvægi hans.

 

Uchiyama-roshi

Hugleiðsla

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.

 

Deepak Chopra

Yogananda

 

Some people say that the Hindus are more adapted to the practice of Yoga, that Yoga is not suited to Westerners. This is not true....Yoga is for everybody, for the people of the West as well as for those of the East. One would not say that the telephone is not for the East just because it was invented in the West. Similarly, the methods of Yoga, although developed in the East, are not exclusively for the East but are useful to all mankind.

 

Paramahansa Yogananda

Leiðin

 

Ég hvet þig af öllu mínu hjarta til að fylgja þeirri leið sem veitir þér óendanlegan innblástur.

 

Sogyal Rinpoche

Dalai Lama

 

Við höfum enga þörf fyrir musteri; við höfum enga þörf fyrir flókna heimspeki. Í hjarta okkar og huga finnum við eigið bænahús.

 

Dalai Lama

Renunciation

Renunciation does not mean turning our back on the  world. It means turning our back on the conditions that cause suffering - greed, anger and ignorance - and rediscovering our natural confidence through seated meditation.

 

Jakusho Kwong-roshi - No Beginning. No End.

 

(Bókin No Beginning. No End fæst hjá Zen á Íslandi. Sjá www.zen.is )

 

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