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Yongey Mingyur QUOTES

Yongey Mingyur QUOTES

1 " Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships. "

― Yongey Mingyur

2 " TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems. "

― Yongey Mingyur , Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

3 " It [mind of absolute reality] is everywhere and nowhere. It’s somewhat like sky—so completely integrated with our existence that we never stop to question its reality or to recognize its qualities. "

― Yongey Mingyur , In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

4 " Experience is always changing, like the movement of clouds against the sky. Realization—the stable awareness of the true nature of your mind—is like the sky itself, an unchanging background against which shifting experience occur. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

5 " Though we're conditioned to identify with the thoughts that pass through our awareness rather than with awareness itself, the awareness that is our true nature is infinitely flexible. It is capable of any and every sort of experience - even misconceptions about itself as limited, trapped, ugly, anxious, lonely, or afraid. When we begin to identify with that timeless, pristine awareness rather than with the thoughts, feelings, and sensations that pass through it, we've taken the first step toward facing the freedom of our true nature. "

― Yongey Mingyur , Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

6 " The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

7 " If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so. "

― Yongey Mingyur , Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

8 " Actually, everything is in-between. "

― Yongey Mingyur , In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

9 " To approach the finality of our bodies while paying no attention to the mini-deaths of daily life is like confusing diamonds with pebbles and throwing them away. "

― Yongey Mingyur , In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

10 " The essence of the Buddha’s teachings was that while formal practice can help us to develop direct experience of emptiness, wisdom, and compassion, such experiences are meaningless unless we can bring them to bear on every aspect of our daily lives. For it’s in facing the challenges of daily life that we can really measure our development of calmness, insight, and compassion. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

11 " When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

12 " Even though thoughts and emotions come and go, the mind’s natural clarity is never disturbed or interrupted. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

13 " A disciplined mind invites true joy. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

14 " We choose ignorance because we can. We choose awareness because we can. Samsara and nirvana are simply different points of view based on the choices we make in how to examine and understand our experience. There’s nothing magical about nirvana and nothing bad or wrong about samsara. If you’re determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so, and that the opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

15 " Daily life provides countless occasions for adapting to change and impermanence. Yet we squander these precious opportunities, assuming that we have all the time in the world. "

― Yongey Mingyur , Turning Confusion into Clarity: A Guide to the Foundation Practices of Tibetan Buddhism

16 " The essence of Buddhist practice is not so much an effort at changing your thoughts or your behavior so that you can become a better person, but in realizing that no matter what you might think about the circumstances that define your life, you’re already good, whole, and complete. It’s about recognizing the inherent potential of your mind. In other words, Buddhism is not so much concerned with getting well as with recognizing that you are, right here, right now, as whole, as good, as essentially well as you could ever hope to be. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

17 " Confusion, I was taught, is the beginning of understanding, "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

18 " When we become fixed in our perceptions, we lose our ability to fly. "

― Yongey Mingyur , Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

19 " The funny thing about the mind is that if you ask a question and then listen quietly, the answer usually appears. "

― Yongey Mingyur , The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

20 " We do not need to get rid of the ego—this unchanging, solid, and unhealthy sense of self—because it never existed in the first place. "

― Yongey Mingyur , In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying