The Healing Power of Mind Quotes

“Always we should appreciate what we are able to do, and not feel bad about what we haven’t done.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“Shantideva says: If you are trained, There is nothing which will not become easy. First by training to tolerate minor problems, Later you will become able to tolerate great problems.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“Appreciation and contentment, the ability to rejoice in all things large and small, is a major training of Buddhism. The Dharmapada says: Good health is the most excellent of achievements. Contentment is the most excellent wealth. A harmonious friend is the most excellent of friends. Nirvana is the most excellent happiness.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“Set attainable goals and strive for them with positive energy. Don’t worry about difficulties, but instead feel glad about any benefits that come. Even negative experiences or so-called shortcomings can be a benefit if we view them positively.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“If you can solve your problem, Then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, Then what is the use of worrying?”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“One sign of the strength of the connection between mind and body is the finding, in an analysis of more than one hundred studies linking emotions and health, that people who are chronically distressed—whether anxious and worried, depressed and pessimistic, or angry and hostile—have double the average risk of getting a major disease in the ensuing years. Smoking increases the risk of serious disease by 60 percent; chronic emotional distress by 100 percent. This makes distressing emotion almost double the health risk compared with smoking.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“Dodrupchen writes: Whenever problems come to us from beings or inanimate objects, if our mind gets used to perceiving only the suffering or the negative aspects of them, then even from a small negative incident great mental pain will ensue. For it is the nature of indulgence in any concept, whether suffering or happiness, that the experience of this happiness or suffering will thereby be intensified.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“As by churning the milk, its essence-butter appears immaculately, By purifying mental afflictions, the “ultimate sphere” manifests immaculately. As a lamp in a vase does not manifest, The “ultimate sphere” enveloped in the vase of mental afflictions is not visible for us. In whatever part of the vase you make a hole, From that very part, light from the lamp will shine forth. When the vase of mental afflictions is destroyed through vajralike meditation, The light shines unto the limits of space.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“thoughts gain power as they take a concrete shape in our mind.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“Buddhism is centered on the principle of two truths, the absolute truth and the relative truth. The absolute is that the true nature of our minds and of the universe is enlightened, peaceful, and perfect. By the true nature of the mind, Nyingma Buddhism means the union of awareness and openness.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment

“All the violence, fear, and suffering That exists in the world Comes from grasping at self.”
― Tulku Thondup, The Healing Power of Mind: Simple Meditation Exercises for Health, Well-Being, and Enlightenment