If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you

If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Meditation
category
[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Category:
Meditation
[M]editation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. – Muktananda

Category:
Meditation

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life. – Paramahansa Yogananda

Category:
Meditation

Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Category:
Meditation

Random Quotes

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil. – Martin F. Tupper

Category:
Mistakes

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates

Category:
Food

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. – J. B. Priestley

Category:
Society

A rich man has no need of character. – Proverb

Category:
Character