Meditation State Quotes

In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation state. I was concentrating the whole time, thinking, 'Oh my God, it's time. I am going to meet my baby. What is he going to look like?'

Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.

Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

Thought comes to an end. Then there is that sense of absolute silence in the brain. All the movement of thought has ended.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.