Quotes About Meditation

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

It's just not always that easy, right? To control what you think about. Who you think about.

order for mindfulness to work for us, we need to make an effort to strengthen our ability to be mindful.

Mental noting can be especially helpful while you're aware of strong emotions and thoughts, particularly for habitual thoughts and feelings, which can pull you into their reality.

Mental noting can also be a help when you need to focus your wandering, confused, or scattered mind.

you can use the mental note "rising, falling" to track the sensations of breathing as your abdomen rises and falls with each breath.

When we are free of self-concern or self-pity, free of inner preoccupations, compassion emerges as a spontaneous expression of our awareness

Inner peace is the key: if we have inner peace we will be able to deal with situations with calmness and reason.

simply noting the disturbance may be enough to dislodge it from the mind.

Meditating on thoughts—being mindful of them—as he defines it, means "simply to be aware, as thoughts arise, that the mind is thinking, without getting involved in the content: not going off on a train of association, not analyzing the thought and why it came, but merely to be aware at the particular moment [that] 'thinking' is happening. If we fail to do this, to see our thoughts as such, they remain the unconscious filters on our perception.

Stepping back from our thoughts through mindfulness gives us the freedom to question the thoughts and so be less controlled by them.

Mindfulness gives us breathing space from this conditioning.

Having counter-thoughts ready makes it easier to challenge them, once mindfulness has brought them to your attention.

Opening up a space in her mind gave her more choice in the moment.

recognize them as mere thoughts, seeing them as well-worn ruts in the mind: "Oh, I'm having those thoughts again." As we recognize them for what they are, we break their tyranny in the mind.

The second way mindfulness disempowers schema thoughts has to do with the nature of attention itself.

mindfulness fills much of our attention with something other than the mental tape loops that activate our schemas.

One method—mental noting, where we label familiar thoughts as such without getting pulled into them—is quite helpful in working with our schemas.

If you stay mindful as thoughts appear in your awareness, they reveal their empty nature and eventually dissolve. Let them vanish on their own, without adding to them in any way.

Mindfulness is a meditative awareness that cultivates the capacity to see things just as they are from moment to moment

In any turmoil or with any problem, as Tulku Thondup says, "The greatest source of help and strength is our minds.

In Buddhist psychology, compassion is seen as a direct antidote to aggression.

A mental state can last for but a moment, until another state rises to the top of the mind's hierarchy, or it can become a habitual frame of mind.