Quotes About Awareness

Like someone coming to consciousness with the cessation of pain, she gathered around herself the world, the dawn, and her future.

I was proud of this small insight; I had no notion how close I was to the truth, and therefore I was as far away as ever.

Well, you know, it's probably not the first time it ever happened in the world," she said.

He'll never understand or see, they'll never give him what they gave us, he'll step in the wrong places and look when he should look away, never see doors or know turnings; wait and see, you just wait and see";

It's the sensation that all intentionality and will is being drained from the world, all consciousness, that there is nothing in earthly activity but malign blind indifference; that even the willed behavior of persons, speaking, thinking, doing, is only mechanical ticks and tocks. Finally that they cannot even be heard or seen, because all eyes are blind, all ears are stopped. My own consciousness the only one existent to know this.

The Crows of the region could have told them that there are almost always more Crows around them than they can see; but like the few snowflakes that fall on your tongue or autumn leaves you can catch, it's only the ones you can count that matter.

I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.' Freeman Dyson24

But if the good news is that the world has been reconciled to God by the cross, the bad news is the world seems not to have noticed.

Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation.

We constantly need to be reminded not to attach to anything.

When we realize the ground of being, we take responsibility directly, because what we realize is that what we do and what happens to us are the same thing.

Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures, no reliance on words and letters, a direct pointing to the human mind, the realization of Buddhahood.

Thoughts well up in our mind moment by moment. But we refrain from doing anything with our thoughts. We just let everything come up freely and go away freely. We don't grasp anything. We don't try to control anything. We just sit.

Chanting and invoking are worlds apart. Chanting is done with the mouth; invoking is done with the mind. And because invoking comes from the mind, it is called a door to awareness. Chanting is centered in the mouth and appears as sound. If you cling to appearances while searching for meaning, you won't find a thing.

transcendence of both unenlightenment

you begin to realize that The Mountains and Rivers Sutra is not a sutra about mountains and rivers, but rather that the mountains and rivers are themselves the sutra.

Thinking is a very natural process, but we are so easily conditioned by our thinking and give too much value to it. Maezumi Roshi

Fundamentally, Zen is a way of seeing clearly who we are and what our life is, and a way of living based on that clear vision.

To speak to an audience day after day for a long period is to find out something about oneself. So often we don't know just what we think or feel about this subject or that till we have occasion to marshall our views and to put them into words.

How sad, that the group with the most access to the truth chose in several strategic instances to look the other way.

Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.

With Nectar in your Mind instead of Thinking, you have Understanding band Wisdom

Focus your entire energy very quietly, very softly, on awakening and realization.