Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Meditation means to know life beyond the sphere of the physical; to know and experience life not just at the surface but at the source.

In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

I'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual.

I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to.

Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

Just two small things: meditation and let-go. Remember these two key words: meditation and surrender. Meditation will take you in, and surrender will take you into the whole. And this is the whole of religion. Within these two words Buddha has condensed the whole essence of religion.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

Meditation means to go beyond the limitations of body and mind.

Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully... that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being - body, mind, soul - is involved in meditation.

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.

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

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

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

I got started on my spiritual path when I was a kid. My mom taught me how to meditate and brought me to ashrams and spiritual circles.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude, your being a new song, and it will help others to experience something of it. It will depend on their meditativeness.

Go deep into meditation. and be meditation I mean silence, awareness, witnessing. You can meditate any time of the day, you can meditate working, walking, doing things. Meditation is not something separate from life; it should not be separate, otherwise it remains a little artificial. Meditation should be spread all over life. You should walk in meditation, you should sit in meditation; that means silently, fully aware. Slowly slowly it becomes your very flavour, then the bridge is created.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.