Top 1200 Buddhist Meditation Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.

I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

Every morning, I do 10 minutes of mindfulness, where I do meditation, and I use that in competition and everyday life.

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.

Taking a 10-minute meditation break is something you can do anywhere in your office, and it's so easy - you're not at the altar.

Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.

You can just sit and space out. A lot of people do that and think they are doing a wonderful meditation.

Like many things, the hardest part about meditation is the decision to put aside the time for it.

With the years passing I feel the need to know more about meditation, kriya yoga and chanting.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.

I think meditation has been the single biggest reason for whatever success Ive had

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

Daring to me is having courage; it's a daily meditation to take breath and find strength.

My life includes much meditation and good energy, so my mind will stay busy.

Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another.

Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

Well it's always been an interesting area for me. In referencing something I just reread from Dogen it says, "Enlightenment doesn't break the person anymore than the reflection breaks the water" and Suzuki in his commentary is saying you don't lose your personality once you acquire some sort of Buddhist understanding.

Gael Clichy who was at the club does a lot of meditation and he recommend it to me because I was such an all-action guy.

Waterlilies always come in Buddhist sculpture. The Buddhas all stand on lotus pedestals, because the lotus is grown from the mud. The mud represents the stained world, a dirty world, but growing from the dirt is such a beautiful, pure thing. This is the way the spirit should be.

I think that young people are going to continue on with the work on pluralism for two reasons, really. One is because it's the reality of the world that they live in, and I think young people from different backgrounds are asking themselves, what does it mean for me to be a Buddhist and friends with a Baptist?

Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.

I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

Meditation has been an anchor throughout my life - it helps me feel balance, connected and at peace.

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to conform to the doctrines of a Buddhist orthodoxy. Individuation is a process of recovering personal authority through freeing ourselves from the constraints of collectively held belief systems.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

Tinted Distances is a tender meditation that reveals a careful eye and steady devotion to elegy and ode.

Meditation is a tool for helping us accept the profound fact that everything changes all the time.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Many Buddhist teachers have described compassion as the ability to react freely and accurately in any situation. Being nice or feeling sorry for someone may be called for, but so may being fierce and unyielding. When sweetness is applied indiscriminately, it is seen as 'idiot compassion.'

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

I have a playlist on YouTube of guided meditations, I have meditation books, my crystals and crystal sound-healing bowl.

One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.