Quotes About Clarity

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

Love has no meaning without understanding

There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes to wash the dishes.

Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life.

We have to restore the meaning of the word 'love.' We have been using it in a careless way. When we say, 'I love hamburgers,' we are not talking about love. We are talking about our appetite, our desire for hamburgers. We should not dramatize our speech and misuse words like that. We make words like 'love' sick that way. We have to make an effort to heal our language by using words carefully. the word 'love' is a beautiful word. We have to restore its meaning (31).

Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding

Once we recognize that all things are impermanent, we have no problem enjoying them. In fact, real peace and joy are only possible when we see clearly into the nature of impermanence.

Stillness is the foundation of understanding and insight.

To be truly present we have to stop our thinking. This is the secret of success.

Much of our suffering comes from wrong perceptions. To remove that hurt, we have to remove our wrong perception.

even if you turn off the TV, the TV in your mind continues to run. So you have to also stop the TV in your head.

It is often said that the Buddha's teaching is only a raft to help you cross the river, a finger pointing to the moon. Don't mistake the finger for the moon. The raft is not the shore. If we cling to the raft, if we cling to the finger, we miss everything.

Fear is based on ignorance. Lack of understanding is also a primary cause of anger.

Looking deeply means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears.

A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.

Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

Mindfulness frees us of forgetfulness and dispersion and makes it possible to live fully each minute of life. Mindfulness enables us to live.

We have to make the effort to heal words by using them properly and carefully.

Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.

Often in daily life, our body and mind may not be together. Sometimes our body is here but our mind is lost in the past or in the future. We may be possessed by anger, hatred, jealousy, or anxiety. If we practice the teaching of the Buddha on how to breathe mindfully, we bring mind and body together, and they become one again. This is what is meant by the expression, "oneness of body and mind.

To practice aimlessness is to identify what it is you're looking for, waiting for, or running after, and let it go.