enlightenment

“What do I have to say about advanced meditation?   It’s a feeling.  It’s beyond the body and beyond the mind.  I would classify beginning meditation — beginning, intermediate, whatever you’d like to call it — as meditation with thought.  As long as there is thought in the mind while you’re sitting, practicing zazen, then…

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Yoga of Discrimination

“There are four major paths to self-realization.  Of the four, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.  Jnana yoga is the graduate school of self-discovery.  Ordinarily in spiritual practice, one begins by practicing bhakti, the path of love.  The path of love leads to the path of self-giving….