Quotes About Mindfulness

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Don't think. FEEL. It's like a finger pointing at the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all of the heavenly glory.

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on. You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Use no way as way, make no limitation, limitation.

The key to liberation is within. — Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

Let yourself go with the disease, be with it, keep company with it—this is the way to be rid of it.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.