Quotes About Mindfulness

If we don't acknowledge and look deeply at our own fears, we can draw dangers and accidents to us.

La capacidad de encarnar el desapego y la ausencia de miedo es un regalo mucho más precioso que el dinero o las riquezas materiales.

You're aware of what's happening around you, but you also stay fully present within yourself; you don't lose yourself to the surrounding conditions. That is real solitude.

The space itself, your home, naturally has a message and intention.

Sitting meditation, walking meditation, and mindful eating are good opportunities for resting. When you feel agitated, if you are able to go to a park or a garden, it is an opportunity for rest. If you walk slowly and remember to take it easy, if you are able to sit and do nothing from time to time, you can rest deeply and enter a state of true ease.

Beginning anew is a wonderful practice. We can all practice beginning anew. We can always start over. With the help of deep looking, we can illuminate the present and gain a better understanding of the past. The past is within our reach, and we can transform it through meditation.

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts.

The ocean of suffering is immense, but if you turn around, you can see the land. The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now.

The Buddha said many times, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

But very few school programs teach young people how to live — how to deal with anger, how to reconcile conflicts, how to breathe, smile, and transform internal formations. There needs to be a revolution in education. We must encourage schools to train our students in the art of living in peace and harmony.

We have to learn to become solid and stable like an oak tree, and not be blown from side to side by the storm.

So the second step in transformation is to create the intention to stay where we are, look deeply at our fear, and accept it.

Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms

Do you have enough time to love? Can you make sure that in your everyday life you have a little time to love?

Everything is empty. Empty of what? Empty of a separate self. A flower is full of everything in the cosmos—sunshine, clouds, air, and space. It is empty of only one thing, a separate existence.

Once, as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension of reality. I saw that it was not really dead, but it was merging with the moist soil and preparing to appear on the tree the following spring. I smiled at the leaf and said, "You are pretending.

When we feel suffering, we have the urge to run away from it and fill ourselves up with junk food, junk entertainment, anything to keep our mind off the pain that is there inside us. It doesn't work. We may succeed in numbing ourselves from it for a little while, but the suffering inside wants our attention and it will fester and churn away until it gets it.

You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day.

one, I know that you are here, and it makes me very happy.

We practice stopping and observing to arrive at liberation. We live as if we're in a dream. We're dragged into the past and pulled into the future. We're bound by our sorrows, agitation, and fear, and we hold on to our anger, which blocks communication.

In Buddhism, the energy that helps us to touch life deeply is called smrti, the energy of mindfulness.

My friend, things appear and disappear according to causes and conditions. The true nature of things is not being born, and not dying. Birth and death are nothing more than concepts. Our true nature is the nature of no-birth and no-death, and we must touch our true nature in order to be free.

When we practice Right Mindfulness, we see the seed of Buddhahood in everyone, including ourselves. This is Right View. Sometimes it is described as the Mother of All Buddhas (prajna paramita), the energy of love and understanding that has the power to free us. When we practice mindful living, our Right View will blossom, and all the other elements of the path in us will flower, also.