Quotes About Mindfulness

Worrying won't help it turn up any sooner. And look!" continued the giant. "If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?

It was so nice to rest in the moment without pushing it further, to feel its possibilities rather than its limitation.

RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.

It's not about right belief; it's about right practice.

Centering Prayer is not about developing concentration, attaining clear mind, conscious presence, a strong witnessing "I," some desired state. In Centering Prayer you merely practice and practice the core kenotic motion: "let go, make space, unclench"—thought by thought by thought.

Brother, even when you're on the track you aren't running on the track, don't you know that yet?

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

Así es como somos. Utilizamos la fuerza de voluntad para eliminar de la aceptación de nuestra consciencia el conocimiento intuitivo.

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

You're spending your life without renewing it.

She waited patiently till she could go upstairs and think her own thoughts.

This dew-like life will fade away; avoid involvement in superfluous things.

There is a simple way to become a buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward all sentient beings, respectful to seniors and kind to juniors, not excluding or desiring anything, with no thoughts or worries, you will be called a buddha. Seek nothing else.

Handle even a single leaf of a green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha. This in turn allows the Buddha to manifests through the leaf. This is a power which you cannot grasp with your rational mind. It operates freely, according to the situation, in a most natural way.

Like the sun illuminating and refreshing the world, this sitting removes obscurities from the mind and lightens the body so that exhaustion is set aside.

When you let go, the dharma fills your hands;

Our own picture of the world is a kind of a fantasy made of our memory in our brain. Each person has this limitation. That is why we have problems, troubles, fighting, arguments. The angles we see the world from are different, and anuttara samyak sambodhi, the supreme awareness, is to see that we cannot see the whole world, to understand that we are deluded and limited. This means we have to let go of our viewpoints.

So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions.

See the pot as your own head; see the water as your lifeblood.

as long as there is a hope or expectation of some result to be derived from zazen, then zazen is tainted.

jijuy?-zammai, or zazen

shikan-taza (just doing zazen)

Uchiyama R?shi used to say again and again that loss is enlightenment, gain is illusion.