Meditation Quotes - Selected Meditation Quotes of Buddhas carrying Meditation Sutras

1. Imagine, that you have only a few minutes, maybe an hour left to live; somehow you have discovered  exactly when you will die. What would you do with this precious hour of your stay on Earth? Would you be able to complete all your things in this last hour, do you have a conscious idea about how to do it?
   And letting go your last breath would you feel satisfaction from knowing that you have done everything possible in this life to fulfil that you are constantly present, always vibrating, always waiting, like the son is waiting for the father-sailor? In the manifested world everything has its beginning and its end. In the Real World everything is always present and one beautiful day you will be allowed to forget everything and leave the world “forever”.   Gurdjieff
    
2. Do not become stuck in what you have learned. Eventually you will have to throw it all away
   Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
    
3. Go to Sleep with the Awareness that you may never wake up; Wake Up with the Awareness that life can end any moment.    Ramesh Balsekar
   
   
    
4. Whenever you use the word "I" you want to catch yourself and say, "I is not me. Me is, Who am I?" Me is the question, "From what source does the I come?""   Jein Klein
    
5. As Radha advanced toward Krishna, she could smell more and more of the sweet fragrance of His body. The nearer you approach to God, the more you feel His love. As the river approaches the ocean it increasingly feels the flow of the tides.   Sri Ramakrishna
    
6. Desires can only be pacified through the knowledge of the Self. If you leave all desires, passions, fears, you will clearly see yourself (as existence, consciousness, the feeling 'I am'). Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
    
7. The only freedom we've got is not to react to anything, but to turn within and know the truth. Robert Adam’s
    
8. Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality, witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.   Osho
    
9. Meditation should be on one's own nature. Slowly the mind will become pure, and the formless consciousness (existence) will be uncovered. In this way your true nature will be understood.
   Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
    
10. "One doesn't really need to study the different scriptures. If one has no discrimination, one doesn't achieve anything through mere scholarship, even though one studies all the six systems of philosophy. Call on God, crying to Him secretly in solitude. He will give all that you need."   Sri Ramakrishna
     
11. Whenever you use the word "I" you want to catch yourself and say, "I is not me. Me is, Who am I?" Me is the question, "From what source does the I come?"" Robert Adam’s
     
12. Do not just meditate. Live in meditation. Realize that you are pure consciousness (existence), the Absolute.  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
     
13. Remember one thing: meditation means awareness. Whatsoever you do with awareness is meditation. Action is not the question, but the quality that you bring to your action. Walking can be a meditation if you walk alertly. Sitting can be a meditation if you sit alertly. Listening to the birds can be a meditation if you listen with awareness. Just listening to the inner noise of your mind can be a meditation if you remain alert and watchful. The whole point is: one should not move in sleep. Then whatsoever you do is meditation.   Osho
    
     

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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj