Henepola Gunaratana Quotes

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

I do try to stay open and stay as present as you can be.

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

Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing, because you're either mindful or you're not.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging them.

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

Central to our work and our goal of finding solutions to global problems is the concept of mindfulness, a technique for focusing attention objectively on the here and now.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

I try to be present in the moment and to be authentic, and to listen.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things. It's seeing our emotions and thoughts just as they are right now, in this very moment, in this very room, on this very seat. It's about not trying to make them go away, not trying to become better than we are, but just seeing clearly with precision and gentleness.

I meditate. Like, I try. Not every day, but even if I'm not doing that meditation, the moments of my day have changed because I'm not on my phone so much. I'm intentionally not checking my phone every two seconds.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

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.

Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.