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
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
The most unchangeable truth is change.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Change
Giving without expectations not just brings highest joys but finds always a friendly karmic echo.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Giving
From far away our galaxy may have the importance of a neutrino.
—Hans Taeger
Many like to flower. Few allow time for fruiting. Only wise men wait to offer themselves as seeds for others.
—Hans Taeger
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
The antidote’s of spirituality are dogma and feelings of superiority.
—Hans Taeger
There is beauty everywhere. Just put your heart into your eyes.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Beauty
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
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
If deeply based in wisdom, even anger is allowed.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Anger, Forgiveness, Generations
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
Expanding and experiencing the mind is like coming home, while the former ‘home’ becomes more and more unimportant.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Home
Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards highest perfection.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Kindness
Even a high experience is worth nothing, when not polished and kept warm.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Experience
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
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
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
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
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
There is absolutely NOTHING, which is not mind-rooted.
—Hans Taeger
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
No need for special meditation rooms or temples. You can even meditate by driving a car, having a conversation or working at the computer.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Meditation
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
Dragons have a certain high ranking popularity or fascination in the net. This may reflect what’s needed and admired most. Dragons stand for universal power, magical knowledge & wisdom. They also act as gatekeepers to the treasures of our (collective) sub-consciousness. What a dawning horizon for a new age.
—Hans Taeger
Caring for others is great. Sometimes not-caring can also be a kind of care.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Caring
It may sound paradoxical, but I’m quite sure that hate and ignorance are the father and mother of enlightenment.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Ignorance
There is no mind, but various states of mind. The highest state embraces them all.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Mind
Sometimes too much encouragement by others or towards others can bring creativity and spiritual development to a stand still.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Encouragement
Everything is emptiness and illusion. Emptiness and illusion is everything.
—Hans Taeger
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: Death, One Step at a Time
A good environment for a common spiritual growth and a lasting friendship is an erotic tension without grasping for fulfillment.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Growth
Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping), spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Love
Our artificial man-made ‘reality’ is seen more and more as ‘natural’. Will what we still call natural once be understood as artificial?
—Hans Taeger