Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

Be mindful even if your mind is full

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

Watch,witness,observe your thoughts-without any judgement,without any condemnation or evaluation.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

You can't control your mind. Why would you want to?

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Most people would focus on concentrating more, and I can't do that. It almost makes me overthink a lot of my things. I have to focus on not thinking.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only by putting the mind aside, by being cool, indifferent, unidentified with the mind.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

Big mind is something to express, not something to figure out. Big mind is something you have, not something to seek for.

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

You can indeed be aware of your body, but you can also be aware of your mind - you can right now notice all the thoughts and ideas and images floating in front of the mind's inward eye. You can, in other words, experience your mind, be aware of your mind. And it's very important to experience your mind directly, cleanly, intensely, because only by bringing awareness to the mind can you begin to transcend the mind and be free of its limitations.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

It is only the dull, sleepy mind that creates and clings to habit. A mind that is attentive from moment to moment - attentive to what it is saying, attentive to the movement of its hands, of its thoughts, of its feelings - will discover that the formation of further habits has come to an end.

The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.

The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.