Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.
Asana is a very important part of life. It keeps you healthy, strong, and energetic. And it enables you to discover and reclaim the innate wisdom of your body. But it is only after you rediscover the self-luminous nature of your own mind that you will begin to experience the true power of asana. That discovery comes from the meditative aspect of yoga.
Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.
The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.
I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.
Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.
You can just sweep the floor generally and gain nothing from it. Or you can figure out the best way to sweep the floor, put your power into it, use it as a concentration exercise, and be meditative.
A meditative mind is at ease because it's not trying to acquire anything.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering others.
And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.
I try to find some sort of meditative hobby to do on set, and it's different for every film. There's a lot of downtime, but I don't like reading on set because it feels like you're taking yourself out of your world, instead of being present. And then, you feel like you're not ready to do whatever you have to do.
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
Yes, I still take my baths all day long. They're meditative. I have three a day.
If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative.
It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.
The real meditative practice is to open up to the full range of what happens in life. And parenting is a fantastic arena for doing that kind of spiritual training. It's as much a potential door into enlightenment as anything else.
Savasana is the easiest and most important yoga move because it's so simple. Lying there is meditative.