Category Zen Masters

Nhat Hanh says : “In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.”

Nhat Hanh says : “If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”

Nhat Hanh says : “If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.”

Nhat Hanh says : “If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to…

Nhat Hanh says : “A human being is like a television set with millions of channels…. We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world. Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.”

Matthieu Ricard says : “Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time – toward the same…

Matthieu Ricard says : “Isn’t it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?”