Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.

You must learn to see, what you are looking at

Observe what is with undivided awareness.

Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time.

Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

Awareness means grasping life just the way it is, without contamination by mental projections.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

You don't always have to look in the distance for what's going on over there, when you actually see what's right in front of you.

Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness.

Art is about paying attention.

Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Pay attention to what you're paying attention to.

Become conscious of being conscious.

There are a lot of different ways to talk about mindfulness, but what it really means is awareness.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

We are defined by how we place our attention.