Quotes About Mindfulness

The ultimate implication of the words "peace on earth" is to remove altogether the ideas of peace and war and to open yourself equally and completely to the positive and negative aspects of the world.

Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment.

It has been said that sleeping, dreaming, and meditating, or developing awareness, are the only states in which we do not sow further seeds of karma.

sleeping—you should always take the attitude of being of benefit to all sentient beings.

The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind, and on the commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül.

You have to meet yourself, to know who you are and what you are. Without vipashyana experience, you don't have any idea of who you are, what you are, how you are, or why you are, at all!

You might as well come back to the breath. It is more joyful, more wholesome, and you don't have to be startled by anything.

When you begin to enjoy the discipline of warriorship, when it begins to feel natural, even though it may still feel very imperfect, that is the time to let go.

Sacred outlook is not only about thinking everything is good; it is the absence of imprisonment. You begin to experience freedom that is intrinsically good, almost unconditionally free. So the vajra world you are entering is basically good, unconditionally free, fundamentally glorious and splendid.

However, the desire to be enlightened can be a problem. It is when it is not all that important to you that you will attain enlightenment.

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

Train in the three difficulties.

Then you have to apply a technique or antidote to overcome it.

first, recognize them; second, try to overcome them; third, take a vow never to re-create such things again.

I would like to devote myself to the dharma completely and fully.

Chögyam Trungpa

There is something to do, but at the same time whatever you are doing is only related to the moment rather than being related to achieving some goal in the future, which brings us back to the practice of meditation. Meditation is not a matter of beginning to set foot on the path; it is realizing that you are already on the path—fully being in the nowness of this very moment—now, now, now. You do not actually begin because you have never really left the path.

You should absolutely and completely stop all six of those misinterpretations.

I was taught that only about 25 percent of your concentration should be put on the breath when you're meditating. This is just a rough estimate, so please don't fixate on the percentage. The point is that in this approach, working with breath is just touching the highlights of the breathing. You don't remain completely one with it all the time.

1. Not practicing the four dharmas of a practitioner (not returning curses for curses, anger for anger, blow for blow, or insult for insult)

4. Not correcting those who are heedless

Atiyoga: Fathomless Mind Basically speaking, neurosis is temporary and sanity is permanent. When we begin to take that attitude, we realize that our occasional freak-outs and panic and our feeling of being trapped are no longer applicable. In realizing that we are eternally free, eternally liberated, and eternally awake, we begin to experience vast mind.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.