Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.
The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
Meditation is bringing the mind home.
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation
When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment; fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness? Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.
The act of meditation is being spacious.
The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
