Quotes About Meditation

down and down, toward the sea.

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

May I quickly attain complete enlightenment, and having attained the state of a buddha, may I guide all sentient beings to liberation and the awakened state itself.

To get carried away by a thought is the state of a sentient being. Rather than that, recognize your basic state as being the essence, nature and capacity that are the three kayas of the buddhas. Remain in uncontrived naturalness for short moments, repeated many times. You can become accustomed to this. The short moments can grow longer. In one instant of remaining in unfabricated naturalness, a kalpa of negative karma is purified.

Bless me to sincerely be aware of death.

the kusulu, the simple meditator. "For this type of person, the main point of the Buddha's teaching involves nothing more than understanding the difference between recognizing and not recognizing mind-essence. Not recognizing is samsara, while recognizing is nirvana or liberation.

Within complexity I discovered dharmakaya; within thought I discovered nonthought.

There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

These empty days. How do you spend them?

There is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question

the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad.

It's hard to do a really good job on anything you don't think about in the shower

If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.

Nobody knows how to just shut the fuck up and look out the window anymore.

I was determined to think about nothing, which never works, because a blank mind is an invitation to truth.

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

was questioning one of the cardinal precepts of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

spent the rest of the morning in the gardens on my own, loving the solitude

It was Muriel Spark, in her novel Memento Mori: "If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

the subject of boredom.

The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it doesn't think. To think is to make mistakes.

It's a good idea always to do something relaxing prior to making an important decision in your life.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.