Quotes About Consciousness

The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is through the heart.

One central question here is whether there is any true separation between life and death, or whether it all unfolds in, and is somehow shaped by, our intimacy with and within the gap.

For what happens at the moment of death is that the ordinary mind and its delusions die, and in that gap the boundless sky-like nature of our mind is uncovered. This essential nature of mind is the background to the whole of life and death, like the sky, which folds the whole universe in its embrace.

Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha

Sem is the discursive, dualistic, thinking mind, which can only function in relation to a projected and falsely perceived external reference point.

Meditation is not something that you can "do"; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However

Seen from one angle, sem is flickering, unstable, grasping, and endlessly minding others' business; its energy consumed by projecting outwards.

to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.

The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only, as we discovered, of all the different levels of consciousness and of all the different experiences of consciousness, both in life and death, but also perhaps of the actual nature of the universe itself

Mind itself is Padmasambhava; there is no practice or meditation apart from that.

Good in the Middle is the frame of mind with which we enter into the heart of the practice, one inspired by the realization of the nature of mind, from which arises an attitude of nongrasping, free of any conceptual reference whatsoever, and an awareness that all things are inherently "empty," illusory, and dreamlike.

Si estamos aquí es para encarnar lo trascendente.

the heart, the eye, and the life-force of true practice.

Toute chose étant par nature impermanente, fluide et interdépendante, notre mode de pensée et nos actions modifient inévitablement l'avenir.

enlightenment is the real nature of our minds.

The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

Rather than suppressing emotions or indulging in them, here it is important to view them, and your thoughts, and whatever arises with an acceptance and a generosity that are as open and spacious as possible.

The purpose of practice is not to increase knowledge but to scrape the scales off the eyes, to pull the plugs out of the ears.

A writer has to squelch his emotional reactions consciously in order to get enough distance to use them in his work as a writer.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

In order to trust your vibes, you have to first be able to sense them—and to do this, you must quiet your mind.

We psychically influence each other at all times, and those of us who live in a higher way know this as fact and don't question it.