Quotes About Clarity

Mindful breathing is the vehicle that you use to go back to your true home.

First of all, you need to know that an emotion is only that—an emotion—even though it may be a big, strong one. You are so much bigger, so much more than this emotion.

When the Buddha was asked, "Sir, what do you and your monks practice?" he replied, "We sit, we walk, and we eat." The questioner continued, "But sir, everyone sits, walks, and eats," and the Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. When we eat, we know we are eating.

My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

While washing the dishes one should only be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing the dishes.

If you think while you walk, you're not really walking.

When you are calm, when you are still, you see things as they truly are. You don't distort things. When you are not calm, it's easy to get confused and angry. All of us make a lot of mistakes and create a lot of suffering when we are not calm.

Life is illuminated by right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding.

When an enlightened person appears, the Way echoes like the majestic sound of the rising tide. When the tide rises, all false views are swept away.

The wise man carefully, moment by moment, one by one, eliminates the stains of his mind.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

Those who fail to distinguish the nonessential from the essential and the essential from the nonessential will, in feeding all wrong thoughts, fail to attain the essential.

As rain pours through poorly thatched houses, so does desire penetrate an undeveloped mind.

Just as an arrow smith shapes an arrow to perfection with fire, so does the wise man shape his mind.

In what spirit is this explanation given? Without being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without agitation.

When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

When our beliefs are based on our own direct

When you put a piece of bread into your mouth, chew only your bread and not your projects, worries, fears, or anger.

What we lack is not an ideology or a doctrine that will save the world. What we lack is mindfulness of what we are, of what our situation really is.

If our minds are blocked, there is no device that will make up for our inability to communicate with ourselves or others.

Without reason, there is no concentration. Without concentration, there is no reason.

Do not allow your heart to whirl in the pleasures of senses.

The bikku should not rest content until mental intoxicants are fully extinct.