Quotes About Awareness

Similarly by looking deeply into the nature of impermanence and no self, you can also touch the nature of nirvana.

Practicing mindfulness means that instead of reacting to whatever stimulus is around us or provokes us, we go back to our breathing, we calm our body, we stop our thinking, and we bring the mind home to the body in the present moment.

Once one knows who one is, there is no need to be concerned about where one will go, whether it be the Pure Land, paradise, or Sukh?vat? (the Land of Great Happiness).

The essence of Zen is Awakening. This is why one does not talk about Zen, one experiences it .

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful. Because of the presence of one member who lives in mindfulness, the entire family is reminded to live in mindfulness.

we practice the Five Contemplations before eating. The second Contemplation is, "May we eat with mindfulness and gratitude so as to be worthy to receive this food.

Mindfulness is the energy that makes us fully present, fully alive in the here and the now.

The place and the food should be appropriate. What we eat is very important. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into what and how much we consume every day, we'll come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, and consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our body and our consciousness.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Mindful consumption is the way out of our difficulties, not just our personal difficulties, but also the way out of war, poverty, and climate crisis.

When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.

Mindfulness is the energy that allows us to recognize our habit energy and prevent it from dominating us.

A smile makes you a master of yourself.

The Zen practitioner must . . . strive to liberate himself from his attachment to knowledge and to open the door of his being in order that truth might enter.

Tu verdadero hogar es aquello que el Buda llamó la isla interior, el lugar apacible que hay en tu interior. A menudo no te das cuenta de que está ahí, ni siquiera sabes dónde estás, porque hay un ambiente ruidoso tanto dentro como fuera de ti. Necesitas una cierta quietud para descubrir esa isla interior.

I am here, available to life. And life is available to me.

All the elements for your happiness are already here. There's no need to run, strive, search or struggle. Just be.

If, in your mind, you think, "I wish this fellow would quit talking, so I could concentrate," you have already lost your mindfulness. But if you think, instead, "If he wishes to talk, I will answer, but I will continue in mindfulness, aware of the fact that we are walking along this path together, aware of what we say, I can continue to watch my breath as well.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

La práctica de la plena conciencia es muy sencilla. Te detienes, respiras y aquietas la mente. Vuelves a tu verdadero hogar para disfrutar del aquí y el ahora a cada momento.

Imagine two hens about to be slaughtered, but they do not know it. One hen says to the other, "The rice is much tastier than the corn. The corn is slightly off." She is talking about relative joy. She does not realize that the real joy of this moment is the joy of not being slaughtered, the joy of being alive.

We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for! How

Truth is reality itself and not concepts. If we cling to a certain number of concepts and consider them as being reality, we lose reality.