Huangbo Xiyun Quotes

To be and to think are one and the same for us.

The actuality of thought is life.

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

We are what we think.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Life is a state of consciousness.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

People don't even realize the power the mind has over the body in the way you perceive things. Change your thoughts, change your reality. Words are powerful - every thought and every word we think has an effect on the body.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

For what we think upon, that we become.

Thought is the measure of life.

When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

Your thinking creates your reality.

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

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

The illusion is we are only physical.