Quotes About Meditation

True inquiry is experiential

Meditation is like an oven that forces the truth out.

The Buddha image shows us abiding tranquility amidst the turning wheel of life.

We should come to know that there is more Reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about Reality.

It's easy to use meditative techniques to suppress our human experiences, to suppress things that we don't want to feel. But what is called for is just the opposite. True Meditation is the space in which everything is revealed, everything is seen, everything is experienced.

True Meditation is the space in which everything gets revealed, everything gets seen, everything gets experienced. And as such, it lets go of itself. We don't even let go. It lets go of itself.

Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises. When everything is allowed to arise, you have the opportunity to perceive That which does not arise or subside. You Are That. (p. 32)

Who am I? Meditate on that. Seek the Seeker. (p. 32)

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. All methods aiming at achieving a certain state of mind are limited, impermanent, and conditioned. Fascination with states lead only to bondage and dependency. True meditation is abidance as primordial awareness.

We cannot storm the gates of heaven. Instead we must allow ourselves to become more and more disarmed. Then the pure consciousness of being becomes brighter and brighter, and we realize who we are. This brightness is what we are.

True Meditation is effortless stillness, abidance as primordial being.

In meditation you are not trying to change your experience; you are changing your relationship to your experience.

I have found that one of the keys to really being free is to live in the same way as you meditate.

Whatever thoughts you have about yourself aren't who and what you are. There is something more primary that is watching the thoughts.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts. -"The Blood-Stained Pavement

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

He was at the stage of a meal when one becomes philosophic.

Do you like sitting here looking out to the sea?" - Vera E. Claythorne

One must seek the truth within – not without.

Sitting here with one's knitting, one just sees the facts.

He was engaged at the moment in a careful stocktaking of his thoughts and emotions.

Nothing. An idea that has just occurred to me. I must go home and think things out thoroughly. Do you know, I believe I have been extremely stupid—almost incredibly so." "I find that hard to believe," I said gallantly