Top 1200 Buddhist Meditation Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.

I obtain my center by remembering to breathe when in a difficult situation. My daily routine includes prayer, workouts, and meditation.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies.

Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.

I smoke weed, of course. That's like meditation for me. Watching movies is a really good escape as well.

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my family and friends.

There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism.

It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities.

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as 'the dancing mushroom.' According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.

The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

Maitake mushrooms are known in Japan as “the dancing mushroom.” According to a Japanese legend, a group of Buddhist nuns and woodcutters met on a mountain trail, where they discovered a fruiting of maitake mushrooms emerging from the forest floor. Rejoicing at their discovery of this delicious mushroom, they danced to celebrate.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world.

No matter what meditation technique you use, just let the mind slow down and begin to explore its internal surroundings.

Next to meditation itself, I really can't think of anything more important than the development of your career.

Meditation is really just quieting yourself enough so you can get in touch with your own inner wisdom.

Before you begin your day: Take a moment of silence and meditation, and give yourself permission to have all that you desire.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

If you seek the realms of light, the best thing to do is to meditate with love and the gentle aliveness. Meditation should not be forced.

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

The philosophies behind meditation are very current today and are a way of finding some sort of peace.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.

Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Meditation is the single most powerful tool to aid recovery from disease and lead to a life of maximum health

All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth,-as some kinds of creatures do their food; to be ruminated upon.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.