Meditation Quotes - Selected Meditation Quotes of Buddhas carrying Meditation Sutras

1. Meditation can either be a twenty-four-hour affair or it cannot be at all. It is like breathing: you cannot breathe for one hour and then put it aside for twenty-three hours, otherwise you will be dead. You have to go on breathing. Even while you are asleep you have to go on breathing. Even in a deep coma you have to go on breathing. Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.  Osho
    
2. Whatever you're no longer attached to gives way. Whatever you're no longer holding to, no longer holds on to you.  Robert Adam’s
    
3. Give up all questions except one: ‘Who am I?’ After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you are. The ‘I am’ is certain. The ‘I am this’ is not. Struggle to find out what you are in reality. 
   Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
    
4. The true hero is he who can discipline his mind by devotional exercises while living in the world. A strong man can look in any direction while carrying a heavy burden on his head. Similarly, the perfect man can keep his gaze constantly fixed on God while carrying the burden of worldly duties  Sri Ramakrishna
   
   
    
5. The only method we can suggest is to observe without analysis the way in which your mind reacts in the different circumstances of everyday life. Don't alter your life to fit some idea. Live as previously, thinking and feeling, only become aware of these is simply functions, but she will come spontaneously free from them. Jein Klein
    
6. The desire to find the self will be surely fulfilled, provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest with yourself and really want nothing else. If in the meantime you want many other things and are engaged in their pursuit, your main purpose may be delayed until you grow wiser and cease being torn between contradictory urges. Go within, without swerving, without ever looking outward.  Nisargadatta Ji Maharaj 
    
7. When your thoughts take on a feeling nature you give them power. But when you refuse to take on that feeling nature, the thoughts disappear. Robert Adam’s
    
8. Purify the spectacles of your mind and you will see that the world is God. Sri Ramakrishna
    
9. So the first thing is to accept life as it is. Accepting it, desires disappear; accepting it as it is, tensions disappear, discontent disappears; accepting it as it is, one starts feeling very joyful and for noeason at all. When joy has a reason, it is not going to last long. When joy is without any reason, it is going to be there forever.  Osho.
    
10. Watchfulness: An excellent way to Meditate is to Observe your mind silently, without any Judgment, without any explanation. If you just allow the mind to be aware of its own Struggle and confusion, you will find the Mind arriving at a stage in which Struggle has given way to a beautiful watchfulness that is Astonishingly peaceful. And even more astounding will be that Ego-Seeker has nothing to do with it.  Ramesh Balsekar
     

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