Quotes About Mind

the true meaning of "blessing"—a transformation in which your mind transcends into the state of the absolute.

It's interesting that the word for "Budddhist" in Tibetan is nangpa. It means "inside-er": someone who seeks the truth not outside, but within the nature of mind. All the teachings and training in Buddhism are aimed at that one single point: to look into the nature of the mind, and so free us from the fear of death and help us realize the truth of life.

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

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.

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

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

with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

If this elephant of mind is bound on all sides by the cord of mindfulness, All fear disappears and complete happiness comes. All enemies: all the tigers, lions, elephants, bears, serpents [of our emotions];2 And all the keepers of hell; the demons and the horrors, All of these are bound by the mastery of your mind, And by the taming of that one mind, all are subdued, Because from the mind are derived all fears and immeasurable sorrows.

Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.

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

In our minds changes always equal loss and suffering.

enlightenment is the real nature of our minds.

the word for "Buddhist" in Tibetan is nangpa. It means "inside-er": someone who seeks the truth not outside, but within the nature of mind.

To release means to release mind from its prison of grasping

It is the mind that makes the body.

A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.

A man's mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

I call your head a bad neighborhood because your head is full of a lot of babbling, conflicting information; most of it not yours, and most of it really bad.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

Another explained, "I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment—you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.

We may have, she suggests, a thin boundary between our conscious and unconscious minds, living with one foot in the real world and one in the world inside our heads.

There is a fountain of youth: It is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring in your life and the lives of people you love

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.