Quotes About Meditation

Y tal vez eso es lo que es el «yo», lo que «tú» eres, una vez que se abandona la idea de yo: un tipo de forma de conciencia purificada.

The mindfulness meditation I've done has been within a particular school of meditation known as Vipassana (pronounced vih PAW suh nuh). Vipassana is an ancient word that denotes clear vision and is usually translated as "insight.

three marks of existence

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems. It is the source of all the troubles in the world from personal conflicts to wars between nations. In short, to this false view can be traced all the evil in the world.

According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of 'me' and 'mine,' selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, a meditation teacher in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, has said, "Ultimately, happiness comes down to choosing between the discomfort of becoming aware of your mental afflictions and the discomfort of being ruled by them." What he meant is that if you want to liberate yourself from the parts of the mind that keep you from realizing true happiness, you have to first become aware of them, which can be unpleasant.

was beginning to observe the workings of what psychologists call the "default mode network." This is a network in the brain that, according to brain- scan studies, is active when we're doing nothing in particular—not talking to people, not focusing on our work or any other task, not playing a sport or reading a book or watching a movie. It is the network along which our mind wanders when it's wandering.

And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.

There are silences made just for us.

The sickness is to sit at the base of the lighthouse staring into nothing. The lighthouse is black, the sea is black, the writer's jacket is also black.

said a hasty prayer and headed for a wooden bench, there to recover a composure more in keeping with what I was, or what at the time I considered myself to be. Our

I preferred not to respond. (Although several replies occurred to me.)

A veces me acuerdo de Laura Damián. No mucho, unas cuatro o cinco veces por día.

prefiero el ritual de la nada.

One operates on the mind with the mind. What else is there, after all?

Y?jñavalkya immediately separated out the two essential points in every sacrificial act: substitution and the transposition from the visible to the realm of the mind.

Being in the moment of creating produces a meditative space where you can just lose yourself.

Amanda and I both paused to take in that bit of wisdom. And try to decide if it even was wisdom.

Take the time to come home to yourself every day.

A person alone in a room is like the soul in the body.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

refusing to think about a thing only brings it more strongly to mind.

There is no more slippery task than to refrain from thinking of something.

There are times when not thinking requires all of one's concentration.