You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
Jon Kabat-ZinnTags: life peace mindfulness evolving
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
Alan W. WattsTags: psychology mindfulness
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Amit RayTags: inspirational love beauty nature mind mindfulness meditation relaxation beauty-in-nature nature-s-beauty pure-awareness purifying
Although social and personal circumstances will play their part in contributing to how an individual suffers, in Buddhist thought blame is seen as a "poison" that will only lead to negative actions and will do nothing to reduce suffering.
Desmond BiddulphTags: buddhism psychology mindfulness
Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.
Daniel J. SiegelTags: buddhism psychology mindfulness
Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.
Mary Rose O'ReilleyTags: questions mindfulness desire objects
Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. You are also no crazier than everybody else around you. The only real difference is that you have confronted the situation they have not.
Henepola GunaratanaTags: mindfulness crazy-love
…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.
Jesse BallTags: life living mindfulness
True compassion is undirected
Tsoknyi RinpocheTags: buddhism mindfulness mind-training
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.
Sharon SalzbergTags: health mindfulness meditation healing
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