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
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
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
The most unchangeable truth is change.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Change
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
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
Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards highest perfection.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Kindness
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
There is beauty everywhere. Just put your heart into your eyes.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Beauty
Even a high experience is worth nothing, when not polished and kept warm.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Experience
Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping), spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Love
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
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
If deeply based in wisdom, even anger is allowed.
—Hans Taeger
Topics: Forgiveness, Anger
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