Awakening The Luminous Mind Quotes

“I don't think there is anything like the awareness of space to process emotion. That space is such an incredible processor. There is no analysis equal to the processing capacity of open awareness. When you are trying to analyze something, you don't realize that the analyzer itself is part of the problem. Both the problem and the analyzer are constructions of the mind. But direct, open, naked awareness is not a construction of the mind but the nature of the mind itself, and therefore the greatest processor ever.”
― Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

“We feel supported when somebody is fully present, open, nonjudgmental, available, caring, and silently attentive. And the silence that contains the fullness of presence is quite beautiful. Just having another sitting next to you or across from you in this way makes you feel supported.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

“The teachings of dzogchen do not focus so much on cultivating positive qualities. The advice is to go directly to the source, openness itself, and discover that the qualities are already there. If you do that, then you don’t have to work hard to feel love, for example; love is abundant in the open space of your being.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

“If you meet someone and have a ten-minute conversation, you have a good sense of who they think they are. That’s not what is interesting here. More interesting is that they don’t know who they are.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

“If you examine your own experience, you will often find that, because of fear, you do not allow pain to be as simple as it is in the moment.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

“We must recognize ego for what it is—a pain identity. We have a constant dialogue of pain talking to pain, which is what usually guides us or drives us, sometimes driving us crazy. And no matter how smart or sophisticated, ego only operates within the logic of pain, and therefore produces more pain.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy

“from its very origin, our nature is perfectly pure and complete; and this purity, when it is unobstructed, can express itself effortlessly, in a way that benefits everyone.”
― Tenzin Wangyal, Awakening the Luminous Mind: Tibetan Meditation for Inner Peace and Joy