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“Ironically, we may discover that death meditation is not a morbid exercise at all. Only when we lose the use of something taken for granted (whether the telephone or an eye) are we jolted into a re...”
“Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.”
“The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.”
“The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.”
“If I am all the time measuring myself against you, struggling to be like you, then I am denying what I am myself. Therefore I am creating an illusion. When I have understood that comparison in any ...”
“He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate from any of it. Beca...”
“This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.”
“You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.”
“For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.”
“Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.”
“Only this actual moment is life.”
“Meditation, said his teacher, hasnt got a damn thing to do with anything, cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesnt develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvem...”
“Meditate, nanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks, the ringing monuments of rock that, freed from the talons of ice and ...”
“When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in...”
“Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditativ...”
“Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from ...”
“I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation.”
“To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselvesand each other.”
“All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.”
