Meditation Quotes of buddhas – Buddha’s Quotes on Meditation

Buddha’s Quotes on Meditation

1. Meditation, perhaps, is the only alchemy that can transform a beggar into an emperor. – Osho
2. To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
3. In meditation one is to become a detached witness of the mind and its processes…a detached witness – Swami Rajneesh
4. When you give up thinking of outward objects and prevent your mind from going outwards by turning it inwards and fixing it in the Self, the Self alone remains. – Ramana Maharshi
5. Desire never crosses the path Of virtuous and wakeful men. – Gautam Buddha
6. If you understand me rightly, meditation is nothing but an effort to look at reality without the mind — because that is the only way to look at reality. If the mind is there it distorts, it corrupts. Drop the mind and see reality — direct, immediate, face to face. And there is no problem. Reality has never created any problem for anybody. I am here, you are also here — I don’t see a single problem. – Osho
7. If while sitting quietly without any motive, or walking quietly by yourself or with somebody, you watch the trees, the birds, the rivers and the sunshine on the leaves, in that very watching you are also watching yourself. You are not striving, not making tremendous efforts to achieve something. Those who are committed to a certain kind of meditation find it very hard to throw that off because the mind is already conditioned; they have practised this thing for several years and there they are stuck. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
8. See whose thoughts they are. They will vanish. They have their root in the single `I’-thought. Hold it and they will disappear. – Ramana Maharshi
9. being aware of awareness itself
   only consciousness can get you there
   to the truth of yourself
   the immortal inner being – Swami Rajneesh
10. ‘Mindfulness’ is Buddha’s word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not a single thing should be done in a sort of sleepy state of mind. You should not move like a somnambulist, you should move with a sharp consciousness. – Osho
11. Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that’s the beauty of it. It isn’t something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority. Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy. If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation. Then that movement is endless, timeless. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
12. I want to tell you that in the mind these two things, sex and meditation, cannot exist together. Sex is pulling you downwards, and meditation is pulling you upwards. – Osho
13. In every trial, Let understanding fight for you. – Buddha
14. Meditation is the understanding of the whole structure of the ‘me’, the self, the ego, and whether it is possible to be totally free of the self, not seek some super-self. The super-self is still the self. So meditation is something which is not a cultivated, determined, activity. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
15. Do not let pleasure distract you
    From meditation, from the way.
    Free yourself from pleasure and pain. – Buddha