Dalai Lama Quotes, Practice Quotes, Meditation Quotes

In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.

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Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

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Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

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If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

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Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

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What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

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If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

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Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

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To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

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Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps you won't, but it doesn't matter, just listen to this- you will find that there is an extraordinary space in the mind, and that space is freedom. So you must demand freedom at the very beginning, and not just wait, hoping to have it at the end. You must seek out the significance of freedom in your work, in your relationships, in everything that you do. Then you will find that meditation is creation.

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But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

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The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature.

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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

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True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

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