Lorin Roche Quotes

Be conscious of this unconscious prayer (of your breath), For She is the most holy place of pilgrimage. She wishes for you to enter this temple, Where each breath is adoration Of the infinite for the incarnate form.

Your heart sees by its own light. In meditation, adore the subtle fire The light that you see by Is the light that comes from inside.

Lila is Sanskrit for “play,” “amusement,” and the sense that the universe has been manifested as an act of play by the divine. Through play, find your way. In play, find freedom, revelation, illumination.

Let your attention glide           Through the centers of awareness along the spine                With adoring intent.           There is a song to each area of the body.           Resonating in sweet vortices,           Long rhythmic vowels and hums,           Ah . . . and . . . eee . . . ommmm . . . hummmm . . .           Resounding on and on.           Find the harmonies           Emanating from the circulation of life energies.           Listen to these as sounds,           Then more subtly, as an underlying hum.           Eventually as most subtle feeling.           Then diving more deeply,           Dissolve into freedom.

The Bhairava Tantra is set as a conversation between the Goddess Who Is the Creative Power of the Universe and the God Who Is the Consciousness that Permeates Everywhere. For short, they call each other Devi and Bhairava, or Shakti and Shiva. They are lovers and inseparable partners, and one of their favorite places of dwelling is in the human heart.

Breath is sensuous, rhythmic, and always with us, as long as we are alive. Also, breath is a gift to us from the larger world… an intimate exchange with the entire cosmos in which we live and move and have our being,” Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche remind us in Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure and Inner Peace. “Breath is intrinsically full of grace.

Good healthy anger that is blocked can then seem like feral rage. But when you accept it and work with it, it becomes the ability to stand up for yourself.

Good healthy anger that is blocked can then seem like feral rage. But when you accept it and work with it, it becomes the ability to stand up for yourself. If you do not intentionally cultivate your best attention in your native state, then you will tend to recapitulate the worst attention your kindergarten teacher or parent gave—disapproval, criticism, scrutiny.

The challenge of wonder is to tolerate uncertainty. If you do not relax into uncertainty, wonder may start to seem like insecurity.

The yukti here is to use the terribleness of darkness as a gateway into the mystery of the soul. Meditate on this terror, and something mysterious happens. You become one with the blackness. This yukti tells you to take your worst fear and merge with it.

to shine through and dispel the gloom. Work is a way of engaging with the world. Work is also love and what you give to others. Your to-do list might feel like hell some days, but the light of consciousness wants to illuminate your work as well as your meditation practice.

The quiet is there all the time, but it takes effort to notice it. Some people even say they can hear the sound of creation behind it. I haven't found that yet, but there's no harm in wondering if it will ever come into my hearing. As Lorin Roche puts it in The Radiance Sutras, his beautiful translation of the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra, we listeners become "absorbed in vastness / Like the song of the stars as they shine.

Bathe deeply in that ocean of sound Vibrating within you, now as always, Resonating softly, Permeating the space of the heart. The ear that is tuned by rapt listening Learns to hear the song of creation. First like a hand bell, Then subtler, like a flute, Subtler still as a stringed instrument, Eventually as the buzz of a bee. Entering this current of sound, The Listening One Forgets the external world, becomes Absorbed into internal sound, Then absorbed in vastness, Like the song of the stars as they shine.

Forget all of your ideas about the body— It’s this way or it’s that way. Just be with any area of it, This present body, As permeated with limitless space, Drenched in freedom.

Radiant space above the head. The small self enters delicious omnipresence. This it remembers and knows as its truth.

Behind the spine is infinity. Below the perineum, Invisible pulsating roots Open downward into space. The heart is wide as a spiral galaxy. Steadily consider Back, root, heart, And know the living body of vastness That you are.