Sadness, Love, Openness Quotes

“Whenever you feel there's something you absolutely must get your hands on, or something you couldn't possibly bear to lose, just try letting it go. Release it instead of holding on. Letting go is wholesome and healing...As soon as we let go of the things we hanker after and set them free, without holding on to anything, we experience freedom and joy that are unmediated and real.”
― Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Sadness, Love, Openness: The Buddhist Path of Joy

“Thought free wakefulness. Only a complete absence of thoughts can free us. We must achieve a state of wakefulness that is perfectly clear and thought free, for that no sort of meditation is going to be useful because there is nothing to keep in mind, nothing to focus on, and no word to direct our attention. So, give up the idea of meditation, and you will no longer be distracted. Thought free wakefulness dissolves the grip of our ignorant dualistic mind. Thought free wakefulness blows up the grammar of ordinary consciousness and goes beyond subject, object and action. Thought-free wakefulness cannot be grasped by thought. It is quite literally unthinkable. Still, we can train our consciousness to recognise it. Among the many technique we can use, letting our mind rest in uncontrived naturalness is one of the best.”
― Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, Sadness, Love, Openness: The Buddhist Path of Joy