Quotes About Mindfulness

el sufrimiento surge del deseo; la única manera de liberarse completamente del sufrimiento es liberarse completamente del deseo; y la única manera de liberarse del deseo es educar la mente para experimentar la realidad tal como es.

If] you really want to understand yourself, you should not identify with your Facebook account or with the inner story of the self. Instead, you should observe the actual flow of body and mind [...]. People ask 'Who am I?' and expect to be told a story. The first thing you need to know about yourself, is that you are not a story.

Buddha agreed with modern biology and New Age movements that happiness is independent of external conditions. Yet his more important and far more profound insight was that true happiness is also independent of our inner feelings. Indeed, the more significance we give our feelings, the more we crave them, and the more we suffer. Buddha's recommendation was to stop not only the pursuit of external achievements, but also the pursuit of inner feelings.

Your boss wants you to constantly check your emails rather than smell flowers or dream about fairies.

being satisfied with what you already have is far more important than getting more of what you want.

numerous theories and stories have been ascribed to the Buddha, often without any supporting evidence. But you need not believe any of them in order to meditate.

they really think about it, but most of the time they don't think about it, so they don't know it.

Sleeping is forgetting and forgetting is peace.

Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity. —

Again, like the Zen approach to archery or anything else, you identify the goal and then forget about it and concentrate on the process. Measure

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.

God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

That's the only way you can really face life; trying to deal with too many things at once makes you overwhelmed. We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't always worry about what is to come.

Dancing and singing, movements on the stage, and the different types of miming are all acts performed by the body. Moments of "no action" occur in between…. The actions before and after an interval of "no action" must be linked by entering the state of mindlessness in which the actor conceals even from himself his own intent.

Mantras are sacred syllables. They are a series of either a single syllable repeated or a string of syllables that form words. But they are words with particular intent in mind. So the idea of mantras would be to create certain vibrations, or to align yourself and others with certain vibrations that are known to create profound positive transformation, within yourself and in the environment around you.

When we don't put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow? Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

Before enlightenment — chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment — chop wood, carry water.

Do not be concerned with the faults of other persons. Do not see others' faults with a hateful mind. There is an old saying that if you stop seeing others' faults, then naturally seniors and venerated and juniors are revered. Do not imitate others' faults; just cultivate virtue. Buddha prohibited unwholesome actions, but did not tell us to hate those who practice unwholesome actions.

The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.