Quotes About Awareness

Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment.

It has been said that sleeping, dreaming, and meditating, or developing awareness, are the only states in which we do not sow further seeds of karma.

The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind, and on the commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül.

So vipashyana experience and practice is absolutely necessary for a person who follows the Buddhist path and really wants to understand the dharma.

You have to meet yourself, to know who you are and what you are. Without vipashyana experience, you don't have any idea of who you are, what you are, how you are, or why you are, at all!

You might as well come back to the breath. It is more joyful, more wholesome, and you don't have to be startled by anything.

starting point, the nature of ego.

However, the desire to be enlightened can be a problem. It is when it is not all that important to you that you will attain enlightenment.

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

The skandhas present a complete picture of ego. According to Buddhist psychology, the ego is simply a collection of skandhas or heaps—but actually there is no such thing as ego. It is a brilliant work of art, a product of the intellect, which says, "Let's give all this a name. Let's call it 'I.

such understanding might be extremely boring. Also, such understanding might include seeing some things you don't want to see.

Train in the three difficulties.

Chögyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is not an exotic or out-of-reach approach. It is immediate and personal, and it involves an intimate relationship with ourselves. It is getting to know ourselves by examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it.

There is something to do, but at the same time whatever you are doing is only related to the moment rather than being related to achieving some goal in the future, which brings us back to the practice of meditation. Meditation is not a matter of beginning to set foot on the path; it is realizing that you are already on the path—fully being in the nowness of this very moment—now, now, now. You do not actually begin because you have never really left the path.

You should absolutely and completely stop all six of those misinterpretations.

That is one definition of the setting-sun mentality: trying to conquer the earth so that you can ward off reality

I was taught that only about 25 percent of your concentration should be put on the breath when you're meditating. This is just a rough estimate, so please don't fixate on the percentage. The point is that in this approach, working with breath is just touching the highlights of the breathing. You don't remain completely one with it all the time.

4. Not correcting those who are heedless

The basic discipline of mind training or lojong is a sevenfold cleaning or processing of one's mind.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

You understand that Mauve and turquois are not food items, but that they're colors.

It seems backward, but keeping your mind focused on the present will get you further toward your goals than keeping your mind focused on the goal itself.