Dhyana Quotes

• Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse conditions present themselves one after another.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Anger, Frustrated, Mind

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• Begin with dhyana, with meditation, and end in samadhi, in ecstasy, and you will know what God is. It is not a hypothesis, it is an experience. You have to LIVE it - that is the only way to know it.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Way, Hypothesis

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• Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is a need to search once more and reestablish the practice and value of yoga in modern times.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Practice, Meditation

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• There is no governor anywhere. You are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. If anybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled - by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Would Be, Alive

  "The Trick Top Hat". Book by Robert Anton Wilson within the Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy, 1979.

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• Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Nature, Real, Eye

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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