Quotes About Consciousness

We are in nirv??a. The only problem is that we are not able to return to it.

You can take one step with each in-breath and one step with each out-breath.

Right Livelihood (samyag ajiva), you have to find a way to earn your living without transgressing your ideals of love and compassion.

Let us instead really live these moments that are given to us.

When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

We breathe all the time, but we rarely pay attention to our breathing. We rarely enjoy our breathing.

In - out Deep - slow. Breathing in I feel fine, breathing out I feel light. Breathing in, my mind is still. Breathing out, my lips are smiling. Breathing in, I dwell in the present moment. Breathing out I know this is a wonderful moment.

If we're feeding our suffering while we're walking, working, eating, or talking, we are making ourselves victims of the ghosts of the past, of the future, or our worries in the present. We're not living our lives.

When you think, The sun of awareness has gone out in me, at that moment it relights itself, faster than the speed of light.

The practice of Right Speech is to try to change our habits so that our speech arises from the seed of Buddha that is in us, and not from our unresolved, unwholesome seeds.

La práctica de la plena consciencia consiste en volver a conectar profundamente, aquí y ahora, con nosotros mismos y con la vida. Esto

Although not yet here, the future is already producing ghosts which haunt us. In fact, these ghosts are not produced by the future or the past. It is our consciousness which creates them. The past and the future are creations of our consciousness.

Live every moment of your life deeply, and while walking, eating, drinking, and looking at the morning star, you touch the ultimate dimension.

Is it possible to penetrate the Eighteen Elements in another way?' and the Buddha replied, Yes, we can say that there are Six Elements . These are the Four Great Elements (mahabhuta ) of earth, water, fire, and air, plus space and consciousness. All physical phenomena are made up of these Six Elements. If we observe these Six Elements inside us and around us, we see that we are not separate from the universe.

Breathing mindfully, you are already finding a refuge in your breath, and you become aware of what's going on in your body, your feelings, your perceptions, your mental formations, and your consciousness. In Buddhism, these are known as the five skandhas ("aggregates"), or elements, that make up what we call a person.

We are surrounded by miracles, but we have to recognize them; otherwise there is no life.

If we sit there and allow the negative thinking connected to past experiences to come up, we are eating the toxic matter of consciousness. Many of us sit and think, and the more we think, the more angry, upset, and in despair we become.

Mindfulness is the opposite of this tendency. We must invite these things up into our mind consciousness every day and tell them, "My dear, I'm not afraid of you. I'm not afraid of my fear.

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts.

Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.

Con el uso hábil del concepto de vacuidad, podemos obtener la visión profunda de ella. Cuando el fuego se manifieste, consumirá la cerilla; cuando la visión profunda se manifieste, destruirá el concepto de vacuidad.

The practice of being mindful of your breathing, your walking, your breakfast-making helps you go home to yourself in the here and now, to be mindful of what is going on in your body, your feelings and your perceptions[.]

Mindfulness is the energy that can recognize whatever is occurring, including your own negative habit energies coming up.

The reality is that the past is gone; all that's left of it now is impressions or images lingering in the depths of our consciousness. Yet these images from the past continue to haunt us, block us, and otherwise influence our behavior in the present, causing us to say and do things we don't really want. We lose all our freedom.