Quotes About Meditation

Still, how I nearly felt. In the midst of all that looking.

as we think, so we become.

Meditation provides the tools not only to abide more comfortably in the present, but also to observe rather than engage with unhappiness-creating thoughts.

When we're being mindful, we're paying attention to the present moment, deliberately and non-judgementally. When we're meditating, we're being mindful of a specific object, such as the sensation of the breath at the tip of our nostrils, for a sustained period of time.

We don't stop thinking about ourselves the whole time. Even when this makes us unhappy and uptight. If we focus too much on ourselves, we make ourselves sick. We have this constant inner chatter going morning, noon, and night, this inner monologue. But paradoxically, the more we are able to think about making other beings happy, the happier we become ourselves

How valid is a practice that frees our bodies from rigidity but does nothing for the mind?

A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life?

How do you think the Dharma is able to describe the death process in such detail? It's not a whole bunch of lamas sit around speculating on what might happen. It's because they actually go through it. Frequently.

we can't control everything around us in the world, but we can learn to control our own mind.

You now have first-hand knowledge of how our of control the mind is.

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats. ECKHART TOLLE, AUTHOR OF THE POWER OF NOW

Mind is the forerunner of all actions.

Four tools," Geshe Wangpo said, looking at

everything depends on mind.

If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows, as surely as one's shadow.

Mindfulness is when we focus on the present moment, instead of being caught up in our thoughts.

Buddhism is about understanding our own true nature. What and who we really are.

When we understand the true nature of mind, we start to see these thoughts merely as thoughts instead of engaging with them. They arise, abide, and pass. They have no substance and certainly no power unless we git it to them.

lack of self-confidence was considered, in Buddhism, to be a form of laziness,

As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become.

Don't try to avoid tightness by getting into a compromised posture; instead breathe through it! Not with force but with wisdom. Use your breath to create openness. Breath by breath, subtle change is possible. Each breath is a step to transformation.

Mindfulness means paying attention to the present moment deliberately and non-judgementally.

In the stillness we discover that there are other ways of knowing things than through the intellect.

May my every action of body, speech, and mind today be a cause for me to become enlightened, so that I may help all other beings attain this same state.