Matthieu Ricard Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

• The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Lying, Buddhism, Roots

• In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Meditation, Leaving

• Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Meditation, Tree, Brain

• I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Meditation, Research, Involved

• The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

  Matthieu Ricard

  Goal, Confusion, Meditation

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Meditation gives you more inner strength and confidence, and if you don't feel vulnerable, you can put that to the service of others. So it's not just about sitting and cultivating caring mindfulness. It's building up a way of being and then using it for the service of others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Caring, Building Up, Giving

  "This Buddhist Monk Has Unlocked The Secret To Happiness, And It May Help Us Save The Environment". Interview with Carolyn Gregoire, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 16, 2015.

• If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Impact, Meditation

• Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Meditation, Emotion

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

• You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Stress, Emotional, Meditation

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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