There are three major dangers which come with enlightenment: stagnation by bathing in holiness, wrong identifications, and the surpressing or doubting of the importance of this self-empowerment.
—Hans Taeger
The double truth of feeling totally unimportant and at the same time of uppermost importance is of great help in mastering life in it’s various aspects.
—Hans Taeger
Everything is emptiness and illusion. Emptiness and illusion is everything.
—Hans Taeger
Developing a global awareness and care is great. Next step should be a galactic or even cosmic awareness and care. From there it’s just a little step to develope a Buddha’s mind of awareness and care.
—Hans Taeger
Often it’s better to stay in the background. Sometimes it’s one’s duty to show some spiritual pride. But a spiritual authority needs neither this nor that. He simply is.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Authority
Sometimes too much encouragement by others or towards others can bring creativity and spiritual development to a stand still.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Encouragement
A tantric unity caused by a short eye-contact can have a higher effect and potential on one’s mind than a long lasting love affair or partnership.
—Hans Taeger
Even a high experience is worth nothing, when not polished and kept warm.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Experience
A good environment for a common spiritual growth and a lasting friendship is an erotic tension without grasping for fulfillment.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Growth
There is beauty everywhere. Just put your heart into your eyes.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Beauty
Don’t build your spiritual power on things like amulet’s, robes and dressings, ritual objects or other materialized items. Using them without attachment can be of temporarily help. But entering the bardo (after-death experience) we are all naked. No amulet at hand.
—Hans Taeger
The only alternative to prevent the net from becoming a mere market place is to create alternative websites, sharing and exchanging one’s personal thoughts and insights. There are millions of spiritual seekers and religious people all over the world. Imagine the changes and possibilities if all of them would build their own sites! Start now.
—Hans Taeger
From far away our galaxy may have the importance of a neutrino.
—Hans Taeger
Expanding and experiencing the mind is like coming home, while the former ‘home’ becomes more and more unimportant.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Home
Many like to flower. Few allow time for fruiting. Only wise men wait to offer themselves as seeds for others.
—Hans Taeger
Real compassion does not arise from an over-emotional gut blocking the brain, but from a clean clear mind melting into the heart.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Compassion
There is no mind, but various states of mind. The highest state embraces them all.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Mind
There is nothing like dead matter or empty space. Everything is full of light, energy, change, spirit and inter-communication.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Life
It helps a lot looking at life from the perspective of one’s certain death. Try to visualize yourself at the hour of death. Just a couple of minutes each day. It’s basic Buddhist beginners practice.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: One Step at a Time, Death
Call our physical body a treasure or a prison. At the end it’s just a costume borrowed for a fraction of time. What costume will karma choose next?
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Body
It’s not the ‘be or not to be’ which is of any question. It’s the ‘be and not to be’ which has to be digested.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Existence
The most unchangeable truth is change.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Change
It may sound paradoxical, but I’m quite sure that hate and ignorance are the father and mother of enlightenment.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Ignorance
Don’t blow up your ego by getting addicted to knowing everything better. Even if you do it’s often wiser to keep your mouth shut and give others the chance and time to find things out by themselves.
—Hans Taeger
Giving without expectations not just brings highest joys but finds always a friendly karmic echo.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Giving
Most people know about cause and effect, but just few handle this wisely and act accordingly.
—Hans Taeger
Imagination arises in between our eyebrows, not from the intellect.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Imagination
Touched by beauty we enter the forefields of enlightenment. Flying higher and higher one may discover that there is nothing else but beauty. Isn’t it a pity that we’re not yet ready to keep it in permanent view?
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Beauty
Caring for others is great. Sometimes not-caring can also be a kind of care.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Caring
Time, space, the whole universe – just an illusion! Often said, philosophically verifiable, even scientifically explainable. It’s the ‘just’ which makes the honest mind go crazy and the ego go berserk.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Illusion
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