Quotes About Mind

whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now: that's what we will be like at the moment of death

There are so many ways of making the approach to meditation as joyful as possible. You can find the music that most exalts you and use it to open your heart and mind. You can collect pieces of poetry, or quotations of lines of teachings that over the years have moved you, and keep them always at hand to elevate your spirit.

The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.

Do not make the mistake of imagining that the nature of mind is exclusive to our mind only. It is in fact the nature of everything. It can never be said too often that to realize the nature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.

Life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else.

Milarepa wrote: In horror of death, I took to the mountains— Again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, Capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

You must constantly nourish openness, breadth of vision, willingness, enthusiasm, and reverence, that will change the whole atmosphere of your mind.

What a beautiful and what a healing mystery it is that from contemplating, continually and fearlessly, the truth of change and impermanence, we come slowly to find ourselves face to face, in gratitude and joy, with the truth of the changeless, with the truth of the deathless, unending nature of mind!

Trust in the nature of your mind, trust it deeply, and relax completely. There is nothing new you need to learn or acquire or understand; just allow what you have already been given to blossom in you and open at greater and greater depths.

poem by Nyoshul Khenpo: Rest in natural great peace This exhausted mind Beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, Like the relentless fury of the pounding waves In the infinite ocean of samsara.

At the moment, mind is like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions.

meditation, the supreme antidote to distraction, brings the mind home and enables it to settle into its natural state.

Whatever may be happening to your body, remember that your heart is never sick or crippled.

One of the greatest Buddhist traditions calls the nature of mind "the wisdom of ordinariness.

It is meditation that slowly purifies the ordinary mind, unmasking and exhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the right moment, recognize who we really are.

This is why Buddha reminded us in the "Four Reliances": Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely on the meaning, not just on the words; Rely on the real meaning, not on the provisional one; Rely on your wisdom mind, not on your ordinary, judgmental mind.

Del mismo modo que si metes un dedo en el agua te lo mojas, y si lo metes en el fuego te lo quemas, si instalas tu mente en la mente de sabiduría de los budas se transformará en su naturaleza de sabiduría.

So if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate peace in our mind, and in our way of life.

the only thing that Tonglen could harm is the one thing that has been harming you the most: your own ego, your self-grasping, self-cherishing mind, which is the root of suffering.

Laissez reposer dans la grande paix naturelle Cet esprit épuisé, Battu sans relâche par le karma et les pensées névrotiques, Semblables à la fureur implacable des vagues qui déferlent Dans l'océan infini du samsara.

Aunque fuéramos capaces de advertir las mentiras del ego, nos asusta demasiado abandonarlo. Sin un verdadero conocimiento de la naturaleza de nuestra mente, de nuestra verdadera identidad, no tenemos otra alternativa. Una y otra vez nos rendimos a sus exigencias con la misma tristeza y autodesprecio con que el alcohólico acude a la bebida que sabe que lo está destruyendo, o el drogadicto a la droga que, tras un breve rato de euforia, lo dejará rendido y desesperado.

The words Guru Yoga mean 'union with the nature of the guru,' and in this practice we are given methods by which we can blend our own minds with the enlightened mind of the master.

Try hard not to create too much hope and fear," for they only engender more mental gossip.

Help me, inspire me to purify all my karma and negative emotions, and to realize the true nature of my mind!