Gyalwa Dokhampa, The Restful Mind Quotes
Think about the suffering we cause ourselves internally through getting angry or jealous.
If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature. If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature.
The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.
Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.
Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world
We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.
The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.
The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.
Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.
Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It is a beautiful mind, and a peaceful mind
It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.
Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.
We are nourished by our relationships and generosity in return to our kindness and compassion for others.
Through meditation, difficult thoughts and emotions may well rise up. And through practice, you can meet such emotions with kindness, listen to them, explore them and then really let them go.
It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.
We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.
Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.
