Quotes About Meditation

nuestra propia mente, con su corriente casi constante de pensamientos, pensando sobre el pasado, preocupándose por el futuro. Cometemos el gran error de identificarnos con nuestra mente

learn to disidentify from your mind.

Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

Todos los artistas verdaderos, lo sepan o no, crean desde un lugar de no-mente, de quietud interior. La mente entonces da forma a la visión o impulso creativo. Incluso los grandes científicos han dicho que sus grandes logros creativos llegaron en un momento de quietud mental.

hágase consciente del silencio que hay entre y bajo las palabras.

Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the pain-body and your thought processes and brings about the process of transmutation. It is as if the pain becomes fuel for the flame of your consciousness, which then burns more brightly as a result.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

can you be free of your mind whenever you want to? Have you found the "off" button?

In Zen, such a glimpse is called satori. Satori is a moment of Presence, a brief stepping out of the voice in your head, the thought processes, and their reflection in the body as emotion.

Continuous mind activity keeps you imprisoned in the world of form and becomes an opaque screen that prevents you from becoming conscious of the Unmanifested, conscious of the formless and timeless God-essence in yourself and in all things and all creatures.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

reading The Power of Now

The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception

Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought.

Whenever you are waiting, wherever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body. In this way, traffic jams and lines become very enjoyable. Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

When Being becomes conscious of itself — that's presence.

If you are able to stay alert and present at that time and watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a rapid transmutation of all past pain becomes possible.

you can practice this by taking any routine activity that normally is only a means to an end and giving it your fullest attention

Or when you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence. There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions, all your thinking.

The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind. You begin to wake.

Close your eyes and say to yourself: I wonder what my next thought is going to be. Then become as alert as a cat watching a mouse hole. You may find that, as long as you are absolutely alert, the next thought does not arise

The more you make your thoughts and beliefs into your identity, the more cut off you are from the spiritual dimension within yourself.

Once you have understood the basic principle of being present as the watcher of what happens inside you — and you "understand" it by experiencing it — you have at your disposal the most potent transformational tool.