Quotes About Mindfulness

All the violence, fear, and suffering That exists in the world Comes from grasping at self.

If you can solve your problem, Then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, Then what is the use of worrying?

Dodrupchen writes: Whenever problems come to us from beings or inanimate objects, if our mind gets used to perceiving only the suffering or the negative aspects of them, then even from a small negative incident great mental pain will ensue. For it is the nature of indulgence in any concept, whether suffering or happiness, that the experience of this happiness or suffering will thereby be intensified.

To get carried away by a thought is the state of a sentient being. Rather than that, recognize your basic state as being the essence, nature and capacity that are the three kayas of the buddhas. Remain in uncontrived naturalness for short moments, repeated many times. You can become accustomed to this. The short moments can grow longer. In one instant of remaining in unfabricated naturalness, a kalpa of negative karma is purified.

Bless me to sincerely be aware of death.

the kusulu, the simple meditator. "For this type of person, the main point of the Buddha's teaching involves nothing more than understanding the difference between recognizing and not recognizing mind-essence. Not recognizing is samsara, while recognizing is nirvana or liberation.

There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.

Even warriors put their spears down on sundays.

She rebuked herself for this thought. /she was, she saw, always having thoughts for which she rebuked herself. It then flashed across her mind that the thoughts for which she rebuked herself selfom turned out to be other than shrewd and fruitful thoughts nand she rebuked herself for this as well.

Passing judgment on whether you should or shouldn't be feeling what you are feeling just heaps more emotions on top of the pile and prevents the original feeling from running its course.

Admit to yourself that your bad mood is hanging a cloud over everything you see, and remind yourself that your moods are not permanent. Your emotions change all the time, and low moods will pass if you allow them to.

One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.

It seems to me that if one could accept existence as it is, partake of it fully, the world could be magical. The cricket on my balcony at the moment piercing the night repeatedly with its hurried needle of sound, would be welcome merely because it is there, rather than an annoyance because it distracts me from what I am trying to do.

Surrender the grasping disposition of selfishness, and you will attain to that calm state of mind which conveys perfect peace, goodness, and wisdom.

I believe in training alone—it develops better focus, reduces distraction and is good for the soul.

the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower

How can you see the wave, when you're the water?

If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.

Nobody knows how to just shut the fuck up and look out the window anymore.

Have less; do less; say no.

People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that

Do not dwell on dying. Focus on your training and what you are going to do to ensure your survival.

Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.