Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

My outlook on life is so much clearer.

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.

Your mind is nirvana.

The resolved mind hath no cares.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

'Liberation' is an interesting word because you can be liberated from external things and also from your internal dialogue.

Being sober and clear-eyed changes everything.

Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified.

Through meditative techniques, one can free the mind of delusions and attain what we call enlightenment.

We have no need to teach pure motives to the mind. All that is necessary to make the mind pure is to undo the negative conditioning to which it has been subjected; then we will be left with Pure, Unconditioned Awareness.

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Clarity of mind, body and spirit is the key to creativity.

That was what he wanted, to be baked dry and hard, to feel the vaporous worries evaporating one by one, to know finally that all the damp little doubts and hesitations that covered the floor of his being were curling up and expiring in the great furnace-blast of the sun.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

The world is as you perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible.