Quotes About Meditation

The essence of Zen is Awakening. This is why one does not talk about Zen, one experiences it .

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Nonfear is the cream of the Buddha's teaching. Practicing

Practicing meditation, we can generate the energies of mindfulness and concentration. These energies will lead us back to the insight that nothing is really born or dies. We can truly remove our fear of death. When we understand that we cannot be destroyed, we are liberated from fear. It is a great relief. Nonfear is the ultimate joy. If

The Zen practitioner must . . . strive to liberate himself from his attachment to knowledge and to open the door of his being in order that truth might enter.

Tu verdadero hogar es aquello que el Buda llamó la isla interior, el lugar apacible que hay en tu interior. A menudo no te das cuenta de que está ahí, ni siquiera sabes dónde estás, porque hay un ambiente ruidoso tanto dentro como fuera de ti. Necesitas una cierta quietud para descubrir esa isla interior.

If one clings merely to a system of concepts, one only becomes stuck. The meditation on interdependence is to help one penetrate reality in order to be one with it, not to become caught up in philosophical opinion or meditation methods. The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself.

As the blade of a sword cannot cut itself, so a thought cannot see itself.

La práctica de la plena conciencia es muy sencilla. Te detienes, respiras y aquietas la mente. Vuelves a tu verdadero hogar para disfrutar del aquí y el ahora a cada momento.

But the path back home is not long. Home is inside us. Going home requires only sitting down and being with yourself, accepting the situation as it is. Yes, it might be a mess in there, but we accept it because we know we have left home for a long time. So now we're home. With our in-breath and our out-breath, our mindful breathing, we begin to tidy up our homes.

While you are walking, smile and be in the here and now, and you will transform that place into paradise.

We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respect-fully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence.

Whether or not one is alive depends on whether one is mindful.

Most of the time, our head is so full of thoughts that we have no space to listen to ourselves or anyone else.

To cultivate mindfulness in ourselves is to cultivate the Buddha within, to cultivate the Holy Spirit.

A thought is like the flame of a lamp, and it proceeds through causes and conditions.

Ser capaz de detenerte y advertir el momento presente forma parte de la definición de felicidad. No es posible ser feliz en el futuro. No es una cuestión de creer en ello, sino de experimentarlo.

Kung-an [koans] were in vogue during the Tang Dynasty. Each Zen practitioner had a kung-an to work on. But before this period, Zen Masters did not need kung-an. The kung-an is, therefore, not something absolutely indispensable to the practice of Zen. It is, more or less, a skillful means created by Zen Masters in order to help people who work under their direction.

Most of us have very scheduled lives and very full calendars. But do we have enough lazy days in our calendar? A lazy day is a day for us to be without any scheduled activities. We just let the day unfold naturally, timelessly. On this day we have a chance to reestablish the balance in ourselves. We may do walking meditation on our own or with a friend, or do sitting meditation in the forest. We might like to read a little or write

out. Bring your awareness to the different parts of your body in turn, and allow them to relax.

mindfulness means reclaiming attention

I don't keep a journal.

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.