Quotes About Awareness

My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon." In

Remember that there is only one important time and that is now.

The Buddha said many times, "My teaching is like a finger pointing to the moon. Do not mistake the finger for the moon.

So the second step in transformation is to create the intention to stay where we are, look deeply at our fear, and accept it.

Even with a lot of goodwill, we can still make the other person very unhappy. Mindfulness is the paintbrush in the art of happiness. When we are mindful, we are more artful and happiness blooms

Everything is empty. Empty of what? Empty of a separate self. A flower is full of everything in the cosmos—sunshine, clouds, air, and space. It is empty of only one thing, a separate existence.

The Buddha said, "When conditions are sufficient, the thing manifests, and when they are not sufficient, the thing remains hidden.

Once, as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension of reality. I saw that it was not really dead, but it was merging with the moist soil and preparing to appear on the tree the following spring. I smiled at the leaf and said, "You are pretending.

When we feel suffering, we have the urge to run away from it and fill ourselves up with junk food, junk entertainment, anything to keep our mind off the pain that is there inside us. It doesn't work. We may succeed in numbing ourselves from it for a little while, but the suffering inside wants our attention and it will fester and churn away until it gets it.

You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day.

one, I know that you are here, and it makes me very happy.

We practice stopping and observing to arrive at liberation. We live as if we're in a dream. We're dragged into the past and pulled into the future. We're bound by our sorrows, agitation, and fear, and we hold on to our anger, which blocks communication.

In Buddhism, the energy that helps us to touch life deeply is called smrti, the energy of mindfulness.

When we practice Right Mindfulness, we see the seed of Buddhahood in everyone, including ourselves. This is Right View. Sometimes it is described as the Mother of All Buddhas (prajna paramita), the energy of love and understanding that has the power to free us. When we practice mindful living, our Right View will blossom, and all the other elements of the path in us will flower, also.

and agony. Are you consuming like a Hungry Ghost?

When our mind experiences pleasure, the five desires arise. The real hero quickly puts an end to these desires.

Whenever everyone's eyes are fixed on the earth—looking at the trees, plants, hills, mountains, or each other—then we know we are in the historical dimension, the world of birth and death. But when everyone's eyes look into space then we have entered the ultimate dimension, the unborn and undying world.

Buddha nature is the ability to understand and touch our real nature.

Suchness [...] means that reality is as it is. You cannot say anything about it; you cannot describe it. Nirvana is the same. Nirvana is the removal of all notions and concepts so that reality can reveal herself fully to you.

According to Buddhism, we are dealing with samyojana, the lump of suffering within us that is translated as an "internal formation." When you say something that makes another person suffer, that person develops an "internal formation.

If I live without having Awareness of this life, that amounts to not having lived. I can then say, as did Albert Camus in his novel The Outsider , I live as one dead.

There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

If the Buddha were to transmit his eyes to you, would you know how to use them? Don't think that happiness would be possible only when conditions around you become perfect. Happiness lies in your own heart. You only need to practice mindful breathing for a few seconds and you'll be happy right away.

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.