Quotes About Meditation

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

listen to the voice in your head, be there as the witnessing presence.

The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease. Your whole sense of who you are is then derived from mind activity.

because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This is the beginning of the end of involuntary and compulsive thinking.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.

Descartes, of course, the French philosopher said: I think therefore I am. If he had waited a little bit longer before saying anything, he could have come to the point of cessation of thinking and then he could have made the more profound statement: I am conscious therefore I am. Thinking is only an expression of consciousness: a surface expression of consciousness.

the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world.

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be.

there is no need to go elsewhere for the truth. Let me show you how to go more deeply into what you already have.

Identification with the mind gives it more energy; observation of the mind withdraws energy from it.

In Zen they say: "Don't seek the truth. Just cease to cherish opinions." What does that mean? Let go of identification with your mind. Who you are beyond the mind then emerges by itself.

I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

Enlightenment means rising above thought

La iluminación no es sólo el fin del sufrimiento y del conflicto continuo interior y exterior, sino también el fin de la temible esclavitud del pensamiento incesante.

You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

En el momento en que usted empieza a observar al que piensa se activa un nivel más alto de conciencia. Entonces usted comienza a darse cuenta de que hay un vasto reino de inteligencia más allá del pensamiento, que el pensamiento es sólo un minúsculo aspecto de esa inteligencia.

the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking!

You think these thoughts in the same way that you dream your dreams when you are asleep. In other words, you don't know you are thinking those thoughts, just as the dreamer doesn't know he is dreaming.

Me encanta la sencilla definición de la iluminación dada por Buda como "el fin del sufrimiento". No hay nada sobrehumano en esto, ¿cierto? Por supuesto, como toda definición, es incompleta. Sólo dice lo que la iluminación no es: no es sufrimiento. ¿Pero qué queda cuando ya no hay sufrimiento? El Buda no habla sobre esto y su silencio implica que usted tiene que averiguarlo por sí mismo.

Do not give all your attention away to the mind and the external world. By all means focus on what you are doing, but feel the inner body at the same time whenever possible. Stay rooted within. Then observe how this changes your state of consciousness and the quality of what you are doing. Please don't just accept or reject what I am saying. Put it to the

The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future

All that is required to become free of the ego is to be aware of it, since awareness and ego are incompatible

Sólo cuando aparece el sonido el silencio empieza a ser.

He vivido con varios maestros Zen, todos eran gatos