Vipassana Quotes

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

  S. N. Goenka

  Misery, Bondage, Liberation

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• Real wisdom is recognizing and accepting that every experience is impermanent. With this insight you will not be overwhelmed by ups and downs. And when you are able to maintain an inner balance, you can choose to act in ways that will create happiness for you and for others. Living each moment happily with an equanimous mind, you will surely progress toward the ultimate goal of liberation from all suffering.

  S. N. Goenka

  Real, Goal, Mind

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• 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

  Mind, Aversion, Fantasy

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• We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.

  S. N. Goenka

  Dream, Mistake, Past

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

  S. N. Goenka

  Successful, Being Successful, Bounds

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

  Amit Ray

  Creative, Meditation, Ongoing

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

  S. N. Goenka

  Art, Escaping, Art Of Living

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  I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

  Macklemore

  Life, Rap, Reacting

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

  S. N. Goenka

  Way, Taught, Liberation

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.4, Pariyatti Publishing

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• Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

  S. N. Goenka

  Light, Negativity, Darkness

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Meditation Now: Inner Peace through Inner Wisdom”, p.42, Pariyatti Publishing

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

  Amit Ray

  Meditation, Seers, Seeing

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• 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

  Yoga, Two, Mind

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• Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.

  S. N. Goenka

  Compassion, People, Trying

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• If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

  S. N. Goenka

  Past, Goal, Use

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• 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

  Yoga, Joy, Mind

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• Combining these two ancient teachings (yoga and vipassana) in a seamless manner, which will bring maximum benefits to the meditators, is not at all a challenge. It is just removal of some mental blocks. Ideally speaking, this combination should be done based on scientific, clinical and neurobiological studies and the combined structure should be made brick by brick, layer by layer in a flawless manner as a homogeneous composition.

  Amit Ray

  Block, Yoga, Teaching

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• 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

  Reality, Vision, Fundamentals

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities.

  Amit Ray

  Reality, Understanding, Feelings

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

  Amit Ray

  Spiritual, Yoga, Skulls

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• If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to be thrown out. You have to go completely crazy to throw it out; otherwise that craziness remains inside you, and won't allow you to get into a silent, watching, witnessing meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Meditation, Mind

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• Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul.

  Amit Ray

  Yoga, Meditation, Soul

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

  S. N. Goenka

  Buddhism, Speech, Firsts

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• 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

  Buddhist, Pain, Buddhism

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• 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

  People, Technique, Stage

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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