Quotes About Awareness

To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.

A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity.

When the opponent expand, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And, when there is an opportunity, I do not hit - it hits all by itself.

To know, but to be as though not knowing, is the height of wisdom.

True mastery transcends any particular art. It stems from mastery of oneself--the ability, developed through self-discipline, to be calm, fully aware, and completely in tune with oneself and the surroundings. Then, and only then, can a person know himself.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.

Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone.

He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him. He who knows not and he knows not, he is simple teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow him.

The most dangerous person is the one who listens, thinks and observes.

Life is something for which there is no answer; it must be understood from moment to moment.

Concentration is a form of exclusion, and where there is exclusion, there is a thinker who excludes.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle toward a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!

He who knows not, knows not, he knows not, he is a fool shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, he is asleep, awaken him. He who knows and knows that he knows, he is wise, follow him.

Discipline must conform to the nature of things in their suchness.

Enrich your understanding. — Don't be in a hurry to "fix" things; rather, enrich your understanding in the ever-going process of discovery and finding more the cause of your ignorance.

In solitude you are least alone. — Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it.

Zen insists that the whole trouble is just our failure to realize that there is no problem.