Quotes About Meditation

The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind.

It is meditation that slowly purifies the ordinary mind, unmasking and exhausting its habits and illusions, so that we can, at the right moment, recognize who we really are.

Do the Guru Yoga practice, imagining with special intensity the rays of light streaming out from your master and purifying you, burning away all your impurities, your illness too, and healing you; your body melting into light; and merging your mind, in the end, with his wisdom mind, in complete confidence.

Seeing emptiness, have compassion.

Meditation consists of being attentive to such a state of Rigpa, free from all mental constructions, whilst remaining fully relaxed, without any distraction or grasping. For it is said that 'Meditation is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it.

Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with the Buddha.

Buddha Maitreya, whose name means "loving kindness

the practice of Tonglen, which in Tibetan means "giving and receiving

Del mismo modo que si metes un dedo en el agua te lo mojas, y si lo metes en el fuego te lo quemas, si instalas tu mente en la mente de sabiduría de los budas se transformará en su naturaleza de sabiduría.

As I breathe in, I am taking on the suffering of my friend or others, and as I breathe out, I am giving him or them happiness and peace.

space dissolves into luminosity":

thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative.

Help me, inspire me to purify all my karma and negative emotions, and to realize the true nature of my mind!

the six realms of samsara: hell, hungry ghost, animal, human, demigod, and god realms, respectively.

The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is through the heart.

Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

pure awareness of nowness is the real buddha

To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Sem is the discursive, dualistic, thinking mind, which can only function in relation to a projected and falsely perceived external reference point.

Meditation is not something that you can "do"; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However

Seen from one angle, sem is flickering, unstable, grasping, and endlessly minding others' business; its energy consumed by projecting outwards.

If everything dies and changes, then what is really true?

the buddha nature, the seed of enlightenment

The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only, as we discovered, of all the different levels of consciousness and of all the different experiences of consciousness, both in life and death, but also perhaps of the actual nature of the universe itself