Quotes About Vipassana

#1. The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.

S. N. Goenka

#2. Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

Dawn French

#3. And, Lord, does it have to be so blasted hot?

Stephen R. Lawhead

#4. I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

Franz Kafka

#5. When we are aware about our body's sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.

Amit Ray

#6. The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.

Irwin Redlener

#7. I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Rick Scott

#8. I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

Subhash Chandra

#9. some student who'd been caught putting bumper stickers that said 'Gas Guzzler' on every SUV in the parking lot.

Katie Alender

#10. The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

S. N. Goenka

#11. Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

S. N. Goenka

#12. The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

S. N. Goenka

#13. Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

Amit Ray

#14. Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

Subhash Chandra

#15. Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.

Amit Ray

#16. The right guy will tell you he loves you to your face, and when he kisses you, you'll know it by the curl of your toes.

Kristin Miller

#17. Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.

Jonathan Edwards

#18. Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

Henepola Gunaratana

#19. As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

Leslie Newman

#20. Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.

Erica O'Rourke

#21. It's putting the aesthetic of a design before the function of a design. Those two things need to be in balance. Something can look beautiful and read beautifully but those two things need to be in balance. If a design is in the way of the actual communication, it's ten times worse.

Denise Bosler

#22. Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and steady, this positive joy arises.

Amit Ray

#23. Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.

Amit Ray

#24. My friend Joseph Goldstein, one of the finest vipassana teachers I know, likens this shift in awareness to the experience of being fully immersed in a film and then suddenly realizing that you are sitting in a theater watching a mere play of light on a wall.

Sam Harris

#25. Taking a principled and consistent stance over Iraq has attracted much criticism from our detractors and opponents.

Charles Kennedy

#26. It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

Sam Harris

#27. It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

Joanna Macy

#28. I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Laurie Anderson

#29. Yoga and Vipassana are the two most time tested ancient techniques for keeping the body, mind and spirit in harmony and in sync. There is no contradiction between yoga and vipassana. They are complementary to each other.

Amit Ray

#30. To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.

Criss Jami

#31. Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness

Amit Ray

#32. Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

S. N. Goenka

#33. Vipassana proponents always stress that if you are insulted by someone and get angry, the result is not the abuser's fault. It is your fault because you choose to react.

Ashwin Sanghi

#34. Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.

Eckhart Tolle