Quotes About Awareness

DEMONS OF FEAR Confess all your hidden faults! Approach that which you find repulsive! Whoever you think you cannot help, help them! Anything you are attached to, let go of it! Go to places that scare you, like cemeteries! Sentient beings are as limitless as the sky, Be aware! — Dampa Sangye

You also should avoid talking to your targets, in case you find out that they're beautiful, sarcastic, and fascinating. For instance.

EW," Bumblebee declared, in perhaps her most accurate observation so far.

She's here," she whispered. "She's in Icicle's mind. Shhhh.

Keep your mouth shut and don't get in the way." "As if I would!" Fatespeaker said happily, immediately tripping Starflight with her tail.

The problem was, he felt it now.

How funny it feels to know you so well when there are so many of you I'm never going to meet. I see you all the time, especially when I'm just on the edge of falling asleep.

Dusky, so how did she not exist at all for this human? It was like being invisible, but a different kind of

Right, she remembered. They don't know yet that I'm Important. They don't realize that soon everyone will know my name, or that I can save them from so many horrible things.

All the violence, fear, and suffering That exists in the world Comes from grasping at self.

Dodrupchen writes: Whenever problems come to us from beings or inanimate objects, if our mind gets used to perceiving only the suffering or the negative aspects of them, then even from a small negative incident great mental pain will ensue. For it is the nature of indulgence in any concept, whether suffering or happiness, that the experience of this happiness or suffering will thereby be intensified.

Sitting beside a deathbed, staring into the face of life's fragility, leaves us no secure corner to hide. It is always a powerful wake-up call.

Buddhism is centered on the principle of two truths, the absolute truth and the relative truth. The absolute is that the true nature of our minds and of the universe is enlightened, peaceful, and perfect. By the true nature of the mind, Nyingma Buddhism means the union of awareness and openness.

It can be so empowering for us to understand, even on a conceptual level, that we are enlightened in our true nature.

All sentient beings are buddhas, but they are covered by temporary obscurations. When these are removed, they are truly buddhas enlightened.

To get carried away by a thought is the state of a sentient being. Rather than that, recognize your basic state as being the essence, nature and capacity that are the three kayas of the buddhas. Remain in uncontrived naturalness for short moments, repeated many times. You can become accustomed to this. The short moments can grow longer. In one instant of remaining in unfabricated naturalness, a kalpa of negative karma is purified.

Bless me to sincerely be aware of death.

Within complexity I discovered dharmakaya; within thought I discovered nonthought.

There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.

She rebuked herself for this thought. /she was, she saw, always having thoughts for which she rebuked herself. It then flashed across her mind that the thoughts for which she rebuked herself selfom turned out to be other than shrewd and fruitful thoughts nand she rebuked herself for this as well.

I've learned to listen not to what peolpe have to say 4but how they say it. I watch them closly how they speak, in particular their eyes.Lips lie, but the eyes never do.

Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

While these are both important problems to be aware of, by far the most common and dangerous challenge in making Weekly Tacticals work is the temptation to get into discussions about long-term strategic issues. Why is this such an important problem to avoid? First , there isn't enough time during a Weekly Tactical to properly discuss major issues. Important, complex topics deserve enough time for brainstorming, analysis, even preparation.

Passing judgment on whether you should or shouldn't be feeling what you are feeling just heaps more emotions on top of the pile and prevents the original feeling from running its course.