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“keep your thirst before you; for it can give you a source of light, guiding you to the place where life is most richly to be found.”
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“There is nothing inherently wrong with the thinking mind: rational analysis to solve problems is what is needed in many situations. But when we are sad or upset, and then begin to analyse and judge ourselves, thoughts can easily become an avalanche of self-blame and despair, in which the mind goes round and round, getting more and more upset.”
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“The insight that the Buddha discovered is so simple, and yet so difficult to accept. His teachings introduce us to a dormant, hidden, unrealized part of ourselves. This is the great paradox of the Buddhist path: that we practice in order to know what we already are, therefore attaining nothing, getting nothing, going nowhere. We seek to uncover what has always been there.”
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“my father had always told me: When you’re on a journey and you come to a wall, always throw your pack over first, because then you will be sure to follow.”
Nota: quemar los barcos.
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“The Tibetan word for meditation, gom, means “to become familiar with”
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“Adding wood to the fire deliberately brings difficult situations to the forefront so that we can work with them directly. We take the very behaviors or circumstances that we think of as problems and turn them into allies.”
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“We begin to rely on another aspect of mind that exists beneath our reactivity. We call this “no-self.” It’s the unconditioned awareness that reveals itself with the dissolution of the chattering mind that talks to itself throughout the day. Another way of saying this is that we switch mental gears from normal awareness to meditative awareness.”
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“Meditative awareness—also called steady awareness—introduces us to looking at the nature of awareness itself.”
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“He finally caught up with the eccentric yogi on the banks of a river in Bengal. Tilopa was completely naked, eating raw innards tossed to him by the fishermen after they gutted their daily catch.”
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“Anything that interferes with mindless repetition can function as a wake-up call, and an antidote to automatic, mindless behavior”
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“To encourage curiosity and flexibility, it’s important to discover our limits, and then stretch a bit further.”
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“ego sound like an entity that has a shape and a size, and that can be extracted like a tooth. It doesn’t work that way. Ego is not an object; it’s more like a process that follows through on the proclivity for grasping, and for holding on to fixed ideas and identities.”
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“The ocean does not become calm and still. That is not the nature of ocean.”
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“We are not the size and shape of our worries.”
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“If you want to preserve the lineage, transform your minds.”
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“this journey had roots that reached all the way back to my childhood, though its precise origin was hard to pinpoint: youthful fantasies inspired by Milarepa; the moment I left my room the evening before; or when I slipped past the front gate; or entered the taxi; or stepped onto the train at Gaya. Each event was a beginning, each leading to another beginning.”
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“Between every breath, and every thought, gaps exist utterly free of conception and memory, but our mental habits obscure this information.”
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Para curarnos, primero debemos reconocer que estamos enfermos.
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“our misperceptions turn us into targets.”
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“The more rigid our sense of self, the more surface we provide for the arrows to hit.”
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“In the Tibetan tradition, we pay attention to three aspects of retreat: outer, inner, and secret. Outer refers to the physical environment.”
“Inner retreat refers to the physical body.”
“Secret retreat refers to intention.”
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“To make yourself a better person is to make the world a better place.”
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“Transforming ourselves is transforming the world.”
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“the Buddha saw that his grasping mind was the problem”
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“attaining nothing, getting nothing, going nowhere”
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“the mind is the source of suffering and the source of liberation”
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“I mistook adding wood to the fire for an event, instead of understanding it as a process.”
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“Emptiness doesn’t mean nothing”
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“Everything comes from emptiness. It is full of alive potential, full of possibility”
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“Many people think that emptiness is nothing. But everything comes from emptiness.”
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“Real and not real together.”
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“Emptiness is not an idea or a story. It is an embodied experience that occurs when we explore experience itself, and discover that the seeming solidity and permanence of phenomena do not really exist.”
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“Our minds are creating our experiences moment by moment, and we experience these creations as real—so real that we mistakenly assume that we are seeing reality out there, independent of our own mind.”
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“the object of perception cannot be separated from the mind that perceives it”
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“With investigation, we can see that the social fabric is pasted together by consensus. The more people who share the consensus, the more real it becomes, and the harder it is to change or dismantle it.”
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“We can swim against the stream with the help of masters and wisdom texts—and our own intelligence”
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“Neither nighttime dreams nor daytime thoughts have substance or durability”
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“The scaffolding of my identity as a wandering yogi was in process; nothing was fully formed, but this ambiguity allowed for creative incentives.”
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“if we do not believe that change is possible, of course we will not try”
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“Acceptance of our own essential emptiness, and the emptiness of all phenomena, diminishes our impulses to hold tight to things that cannot really be held.”
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“It’s much easier to recognize the emptiness of a dream when we are sleeping with our eyes closed than to recognize the emptiness of all phenomena when we have our eyes open. The point is not to convince ourselves that we really can walk on water, but to understand that the solidity we normally ascribe to our bodies is not real; and that bringing a more realistic perspective to who and what we are has lasting benefits. Acceptance of our own essential emptiness, and the emptiness of all phenomena, diminishes our impulses to hold tight to things that cannot really be held.”
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“The problem is not thoughts, it is following them.”
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“I explained that when we first become aware of thoughts, they seem to multiply; but there aren’t really more thoughts than before, we are just more aware of them.”
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“Don’t conclude that your mind is significantly different from anyone else’s. We all have this monkey mind. Once we put the monkey under the magnifying glass, the mind commonly appears crazier than ever. It’s not. You are just allowing yourself to become acquainted with how crazy it has always been. This is great news.”
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“Acceptance and passivity have nothing to do with each other”
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“If you get attached to the fixed goals of productivity, you cannot stay open and flexible. You cannot adapt and innovate.”
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“I am very sorry. I gave the wrong answer. Buddhism is much more concerned with creativity. He explained that he had arrived at this conclusion by investigating uncertainty. You could never be certain of anything.”
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“Creativity means staying open to change, and risking failure.”
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“The essence of meditation is awareness. Joy, clarity, inner peace—these are the by-products”
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“Awareness is aware of itself; it recognizes the spacious, knowing qualities of mind that are always present.”
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“When one looks for a thought and suddenly can’t find “one, in that moment there is no object, just awareness, so it’s a perfect opportunity to recognize awareness without getting hooked by an object. But you are not used to recognizing that—so you think it is blank, or nothing.”
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“At about seven o’clock, I walked back to the restaurant and stood at the kitchen door. The rice and dal that had been left on people’s plates had been scraped off into a pot that sat on a counter. No more choices. A waiter scooped some leftovers into a bowl for me. The rest would be fed to the dogs. I ate standing at the door—a more delicious meal than any I had eaten at five-star hotels.”
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“Here’s the curious, counterintuitive aspect about pain: When we meet pain with resistance, the pain does not diminish. Instead we add suffering to the pain.”
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“A common metaphor for the entire Buddhist path is swimming against the stream.
This refers to the reverse aspect of all forms of mind training.
To investigate consensus-reality reverses social norms.
In a noisy and materialistic society, to sit down and remain still and quiet is a reverse activity.
To devote even one hour a day to becoming nobody when we could be in the world becoming somebody reverses socially rewarding goals.
To aspire that all sentient beings have happiness and be free from suffering runs counter to self-centered preoccupations.
When we take a wide look at reverse, we can appreciate that the meaning runs much deeper than labeling a category of discrete exercises. It can become a foundational principle for guiding daily-life situations. It can be used to cut through mindless behavioral loops, and for using disruption to wake us up from our sleepwalking habits.”
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“If the avoidance of death is the social standard, then contemplating death becomes a reverse activity.”
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“you can hold the sadness and not drown in sorrow”
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“The recognition of luminosity is the experience of dying before we die”
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“If we treasure specific philosophies or political views, and have experienced great attachment to those ideologies, we offer those. If we know ourselves to be angry or stingy, we offer that. Whatever arouses anger or pride, offer that. The deepest bonds of attachment will be found in both aversion and attraction.”
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“Living in ignorant denial of death is like eating poisoned candy. It tastes so delicious.”
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“Space exists within the cup but does not belong to the cup. When the cup breaks, the contained space joins with the space that has no edges, that is not contained. In the bardo texts, this cup-space is called child luminosity, and boundless space is called mother luminosity.”
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“try your best to help everyone who is interested in working with their mind”
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“as long as we remain in our bodies, even the most intense experiences of luminous emptiness will be shaded—however slightly—by the conceptual mind”
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“Training to recognize the nature of our minds familiarizes us with child luminosity, and this familiarity is what allows us to approach the end of our bodies without fear and dread”
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“unconditional love—for ourselves and all beings—arises once we allow for the natural flow of change”
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Martes 19 octubre 2021
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