Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

To find a Buddha all you have to do is see your nature.

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

Your mind is nirvana.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

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.

Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.

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.

The mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is the mind.

Your nature is the Buddha.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.

I have a profound affection for Buddhism, and Zen Buddhism's particular ways of meditating.

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

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.