Best 24 quotes of Gyalwa Dokhampa on MyQuotes

Before any change for the better can take place, a level of understanding is always needed; because without understanding we tend to fall back on the automatic responses and reactions that we have built up over our lives.

Desire also creates a sense of attachment in the mind. Not only are we attached to our way of thinking and of seeing the world, but we become over-attached to the people or things we desire.

For many people it is the notion of time that makes them feel restless – that there just aren't enough hours in the day, that they are rushing, either on an hourly or daily basis or that life was somehow better in the past or will be so in the future.

Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world

Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It is a beautiful mind, and a peaceful mind

If we try to hold on to so many things, both real and imaginary, thoughts and emotions, fears, worries and expectations, then we begin to weigh our hearts down and make our minds restless.

If you can let things come and go without being ruffled you will soon begin to ease a restless mind.

If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature. If you want to have peace of mind, you need to listen to your heart or your inner nature.

Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild.

It is important to be considerate of the future, but when we invest all of our present in our future hopes, we are placing a lot of value on what is inevitably in doubt.

It is through the filter of our ego that we give meaning to everything we see, touch, hear, taste and feel.

It’s amazing how often our minds drift in time away from the present into either the future or the past, so developing ways for bringing ourselves back into the moment are very helpful for cultivating the restful mind.

Our experiences and our memories are within us, and the key is to be aware of the lens or the filter, to realise that we can also change the angle, especially when we are feeling agitated or stuck in life, that we can change the record.

Someone who is said to have a big ego is thought to be full of themselves, to lack the ability to listen, to always rush to be at the top of the tree and to think their own ideas are the best.

The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

The tendency of the human mind is to see the world with a ‘dualistic’ view that describes everything through comparisons: good and bad, pain and happiness, beauty and ugliness, rich and poor.

Think about the suffering we cause ourselves internally through getting angry or jealous.

Through meditation, difficult thoughts and emotions may well rise up. And through practice, you can meet such emotions with kindness, listen to them, explore them and then really let them go.

We all have this restful mind, but sometimes our fears and our ego mind get the better of us and we can’t see it.

We are nourished by our relationships and generosity in return to our kindness and compassion for others.

We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.

We can’t control the things or people that are external to us, that happen to us, but we can control our own reactions or way of looking at things, so we need never be completely helpless.

When we hold on too tightly to our attachments we are trying to keep them just as they are, to make them permanent. But nothing in life is permanent.