Steven Gundry Quotes

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

If you cannot bow to Buddha, you cannot be a Buddha. It is arrogance.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

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

Music is not the only reason that I practice Buddhism anymore because it has affected my whole life.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious endeavour. It is not introspection. Do not desire to become a buddha; let sitting or lying down drop away. Be moderate in eating and drinking. Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

In Tibetan, authentic presence is wangthang, which literally means, 'field of power'... The cause or the virtue that brings about authentic presence is emptying out and letting go. You have to be without clinging.

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

No matter how long your journey appears to be, there is never more than this: one step, one breath, one moment... Now.

Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life.

Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.

Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject anything. Meditation is probably the only activity that doesn't add anything to the picture. Everything is allowed to come and go without further embellishment. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, non aggressive occupation. Not filling the space, allowing for the possibility of connecting with unconditional openness - this provides the basis for real change.

May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.

Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.