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Clergyman
Born:
December 7
, 1927
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.
Henepola Gunaratana
Frame
,
Without
,
Become
,
Us
,
Our
,
Freeze
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
Henepola Gunaratana
Purpose
,
Transformation
,
Personal
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.
Henepola Gunaratana
Future
,
Memories
,
Moment
,
Mind
,
Past
By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
Henepola Gunaratana
Thoughts
,
Peace
,
Experience
,
Mind
,
Brain
The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain can experience things as they are.
Henepola Gunaratana
Thoughts
,
Experience
,
Brain
,
Practice
You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.
Henepola Gunaratana
You
,
Want
,
Learn
,
Them
,
Desires
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.
Henepola Gunaratana
Mind
,
Step
,
You
,
Impossible
,
Control
Let come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. If good mental images arise, that is fine. If bad mental images arise, that is fine, too. Look on all of it as equal, and make yourself comfortable with whatever happens.
Henepola Gunaratana
Good
,
Yourself
,
Look
,
Bad
,
Comfortable
Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.
Henepola Gunaratana
Anything
,
Reject
,
Cling
Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.
Henepola Gunaratana
Peace
,
Experience
,
Thought
,
Concept
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.
Henepola Gunaratana
Yourself
,
Compassion
,
You
,
Others
Meditation changes your character.
Henepola Gunaratana
Character
,
Changes
,
Meditation
,
Your
Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.
Henepola Gunaratana
Mind
,
You
,
Behavior
,
Calm
,
Own
,
Watch
Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.
Henepola Gunaratana
Will
,
Others
,
Whatever
,
Ourselves
,
Use
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