Quotes About Awareness

Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

When we go home to the present moment, we understand there are so many conditions of happiness that we don't need to go running after yet another one. We already have enough conditions to be happy. Happiness is entirely possible right in the here and now. The

mindfulness is not something that is only done in a meditation hall; it is also done in the kitchen, in the garden, when we are on the telephone, when we are driving a car, when we are doing the dishes. If

The Buddha said, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not yet here." There is only a single moment in which we can truly be alive, and that is the present moment. Being present in the here and now is our practice.

Although different from Indian Buddhism from the standpoint of form and practice, in the end Zen seems to be more authentic than many other Buddhist schools. In particular, Zen emphasizes the necessity of practice aiming at enlightenment which is the very foundation of Buddhism.

In the monastery, one must be aware of all that one does. If, for example, the student shuts the door in a noisy way, he thus proves that he is not aware of his being. Virtue does not lie exactly in the fact of closing the door gently, but in the awareness of the fact that one is in the process of closing the door.

la infelicidad humana se asienta fundamentalmente en tres elementos: la ignorancia, el apego y la ira.

If after reading the newspaper, hearing the news, or being in a conversation, we feel anxious or worn out, we know we have been in contact with toxins. Movies

Start where you are. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

We have a great bagful of labels we don't even know where they came from. And when we stick them onto people, we cut ourselves off from those people, and we can no longer know who they really are.

Solo aquí y ahora podemos experimentar la liberación y la felicidad total.

The miracle is not to walk on water or fire. The miracle is to walk on the earth.

The third door is aimlessness. We already are what we want to become. We don't have to become someone else.

Meditation is not about turning yourself into a battlefield where one side fights the other, because the basis of Buddhist meditation is nonduality.

We blame our suffering on another person or group, or on bad luck, but outside conditions are not the reason it appears. Our suffering was already there.

Our feelings are us, and for that moment we are those feelings. We needn't be intoxicated or terrorized by them, nor do we need to reject them. The practice of not clinging to or rejecting feelings is an important part of meditation. If we face our feelings with care, affection, and non violence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and nourishing.

Our moods fluctuate and we identify ourselves with these feelings. When we're sad, we say, I'm sad. When we're happy, we say, I'm happy. But our true person is not those things, nor is it something outside of them.

The higher our degree of concentration, the greater the quality of our life. Vietnamese girls are often told by their mothers that if they concentrate, they will be more beautiful. This is the kind of beauty that comes from dwelling deeply in the present moment. When a young lady moves inattentively, she does not look as fresh or at ease. Her mother may not use these words, but she is encouraging her daughter to practice Right Concentration

The first thing we can do in these situations is to acknowledge internally that the pictures we have in our head, what we think happened, may not be accurate. Our practice is to breathe and walk until we are more calm and relaxed.

Respirar durante dos o tres segundos conscientemente te permite darte cuenta de que estás vivo

There is no enlightenment outside daily life.

We tend to focus on the object and call it reality. We don't notice how our mind intervenes in our perception.

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thoughts will cease, allowing your mind to dwell in mindfulness. When you are aware of your breathing, you dwell in mindfulness. Dwelling in mindfulness, you cannot be led astray by any thoughts. With just one breath, you can attain awakening. That awakening is the Buddha-nature that exists in all beings. "Breathing in a short breath, you know that you are breathing in a short breath. Breathing out a long breath