Self

The advanced education in Tantra obviously has to do with the entrance into samadhi, the negation of the self. That is what the path of negation means, not the negation of life, but the negation of…
Salvakalpa samadhi is absorption in eternity to the point where there is no real concept of self but there's still a karmic chain. Nirvikalpa samadhi is absorption in nirvana; concepts of self and no…
The miracle of enlightenment is that you take the self and let it dissolve in the white light of eternity.
You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with peeling back the personality from this lifetime.
Selfless giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.
Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.
In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.
You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside…
Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.
Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.
In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration. The light is not quantifiable. You experience it in meditation when thought stops. When you go beyond…