Quotes About Awareness

The monks walked on in silence. Five hours later, as they were approaching the lodging temple, Ekido couldn't restrain himself any longer. 'Why did you carry that girl across the road?' he asked. 'We monks are not supposed to do things like that.' 'I put the girl down hours ago,' said Tanzan. 'Are you still carrying her?

Note: The mind is a superb interment if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly -- you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Sto se više usredoto?ite na vrijeme - na prošlost i budu?nost - to više propuštate Sadašnji trenutak, najdragocjenije što postoji.

Enlightenment is not only the end of suffering and of continuous conflict within and without, but also the end of the dreadful enslavement to incessant thinking.

Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

Nobody can act beyond their level of consciousness.

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity.

Learn to use time in the practical aspects of your life - we may call this clock time - but immediately return to present-moment awareness when those practical matters have been dealt with.

Whatever you identify with turns into ego.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.

Perceiving presence is what true awakening is all about.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don't forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

Presence is pure consciousness — consciousness that has been reclaimed from the mind, from the world of form. The inner body is your link with the Unmanifested, and in its deepest aspect is the Unmanifested: the Source from which consciousness emanates, as light emanates from the sun. Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.

Your life situation may be full of problems — most life situations are — but find out if you have any problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do you have a problem now?

How to stop creating time? Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future when required to deal with the practical aspects of your life situation. Always say "yes" to the present moment. What

Beware of making it your mission to 'eradicate evil,' as you are likely to turn into the very thing you are fighting against. Fighting unconsciousness will draw you into unconsciousness yourself. Unconsciousness, dysfunctional ego behavior, can never be defeated by attacking it.

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the Now.

Na trenutak morate odložiti osobnu prtljagu problema, prošlosti i budu?nosti, kao i sve svoje znanje; ina?e ?ete vidjeti, ali ne?ete vidjeti, ?ut ?ete, ali ne?ete ?uti. Potrebna je vaša apsolutna prisutnost.

So give up waiting as a state of mind.

You are only allowed to see a sanitized version of death.