Quotes About Meditation

I try my best to take out time for exercise and also meditation, it really brings me peace of mind.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

Working with the earth is peaceful for me.

On all the peaks lies peace.

I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

'Penny for Your Thoughts' was something I noodled on for a while.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Performing tai chi in space - it is comfortable; we got more outer space chi.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Withdraw into yourself and look.

The purification of the Soul is simply to allow it to be alone; it is pure when it keeps no company.

One jests because one wants to contemplate.

A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech

I asked him if Buddhists believe we all get a specific destiny. "We don't think there's a specific place in your life to go. Everybody's destiny is to become an enlightened being and reach the everlasting state of mind.

There is no need to have any special attitude while drinking except one of thankfulness. The nature of the tea itself is that of no-mind.

For students coming to meditation practice with faulty ego functioning, the enlightenment ideal may mistakenly represent 'a purified state of complete and invulnerable self-sufficiency from which all badness has been expelled, the aim of all narcissistic strivings

Suffering from feelings of inner emptiness, some meditation practitioners may misunderstand and likewise be attracted to the Buddhist notion of 'no-self,' and mistakenly seek doctrinal validation for their feelings of emptiness.

The goal in meditation is not to exorcise the psyche of disturbing thoughts and emotions, nor to suppress them, but to hold them in non-reactive, friendly awareness. They may not necessarily disappear from the practitioner's psyche, but through consistent observing and witnessing of them, they cease to trouble him or her.

When a wide variety of mental processes are treated with bare, non-judgmental attention, they are held in an open, spacious container. This enables the meditation practitioner to befriend his or her thoughts and emotions, no matter what they are, and reduces the likelihood of being tyrannized by an inordinately demanding superego

Buddhism is primarily a study of mind and a system for training the mind. It is spiritual in nature, not religious. Its goal is self-knowledge, not salvation; freedom, not heaven. It relies on reason and analysis, contemplation and meditation, to transform knowledge about something into knowledge that surpasses understanding.

Although Buddhism can be practiced "religiously," in many respects, it isn't really a religion. Because of its emphasis on questioning and working with the mind, it is spiritual in nature. But because it relies on logical analysis and reasoning, as well as on meditation, many Buddhist teachers regard Buddhism as a science of mind rather than a religion.

Once we walk through that door, however, we're met with a paradox: the forms disappear. On the other side, there are no statues of buddhas, no incense bowls, no sound of gongs or chanting, no tatami mats or brocades, no meditation cushions, and no meditators. Why? These forms and activities are simply the means to enter the open dimension of our own mind. The wisdom they point to has no tangible form of its own.