Morihei Ueshiba Quotes

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

The word 'yoga' means union. It's like everything in yoga yokes or unites you to something higher, the highest part of yourself.

Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become silent, utterly silent, beyond the mind, two flowers bloom in you. One is of wisdom: you know what is and what is not. And the other is of freedom: you know now there are no more any limitations on you, either of time or of space. You become liberated. Meditation is the key to liberation, to freedom, to wisdom.

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation gives you an inner light, and then wherever you are there is light and whatsoever you do, you do in full light and clarity. Hence there is never any guilt, no repentance, no looking back. Whatsoever one does, one feels that's the only thing that can be done. It is always right.

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

Meditation is nothing but putting the mind aside, putting the mind out of the way, and bringing a witnessing which is always there but hidden underneath the mind. This witnessing will reach to your center, and once you have become enlightened, then there is no problem. Then bring the mind in tune with you

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.