Quotes About Awareness

As we observe our thoughts carefully we will notice that they arise, abide, and disappear themselves. There is no need to expel thoughts from our mind forcefully; just as each thought arises from the clear nature of our mind, so too does it naturally dissolve back into this clear nature.

As each thought disappears in this way, we should train ourselves to feel that this disappearance is even more real than the thought's original concrete appearance.

Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and why and how you are doing it.

All of us, the religious and the non-religious, Easterner and Westerner alike, want to be happy. Everybody seeks happiness, but are you looking in the right place? Perhaps happiness is here but you're looking there. Make sure you seek happiness where it can be found.

eating with ignorance turns nourishment into poison and kills us.

These days, people study and train to become psychologists. Lord Buddha's idea is that everybody should become a psychologist. Each of you should know your own mind; you should become your own psychologist. This is definitely possible; every human being has the ability to understand his or her own mind. When you understand your own mind, control follows naturally.

the mind is a dependent arising, which means that it exists in dependence upon causes and conditions, our mind can be transformed in any way we choose;

Relying on the boat of a human body, Free yourself from the great river of pain! As it is hard to find this boat again, This is no time to sleep, you fool. [11]

If you neglect to protect your mind, you can neither close the door to suffering nor open the door to happiness.– Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Three of the greatest failings, want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

He is untainted by elaborations of the eight mundane concerns.77

This time it is different. Today I have sought a spiritual teacher, I have read the sutras, and as a result I have now recognized the enemy!" It has been stated: The old days when you could Ruin me at will are now gone; I can see you now, so where are you off to? I shall tear down your arrogance.197

Observe the defects of a householder's life and return soon." When the prince heard

Remain in equipoise on this spacelike nature, my son.

We let ourselves be at the mercy of our thoughts and our thoughts at the mercy of our negative emotions, in this way we undermine ourselves. —A TIBETAN SAYING

I shall allow my mind to fade into space.

The way we tend to perceive things to be does not accord with the way they are. Again, this does not nihilistically deny the fact of our experience. The existence of things and events is not in dispute; it is the manner in which they exist that must be clarified.

and die while in that mindstate.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own

la compasión nos permite abrirnos a la realidad del sufrimiento y buscar su alivio.

All friends are but M?ra's tricksters; [10] I'll recognize all sense objects as salt water.61

If relapsed, meditate on it as the very remedy.

The meditation session divides into three—preparatory practices, the main practice, and the concluding practice.

Focus the mind with ease, lucidity, and vibrancy, not allowing it to fall under the influence of either dullness or excitation. This is presented by the following line: Place your mind on the basis-of-all, the actual path.175 You should identify the ordinary mind and place it in a state free of negation or affirmation.