Applying attention practice, we use our emotions as a focus for developing awareness, an opportunity to look at the ‘looker’. Just as we need sound to look at sound, form to look at form, we need emotions to look at emotions. In fact, intense emotions can be our best friends in terms of stabilizing the mind, giving the restless bird a branch on which to rest.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom
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Further quotes from the book Joyful Wisdom:
- The possibilities within us
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Meditation isn’t something separate from your life
- Beginning to identify with pristine awareness
- Bringing an end to suffering
- No greater inspiration
- The right thing to do
- Looking directly
- Not alone
- Courage to be as we are
- A moment of direct pristine awareness
- Importance of understanding our basic situation
- Embracing the conditions that trouble us
- Ability to fly
- Clarity 24/7
- Essence of all our experiences
- Clarity
- Awareness and apprehended objects
- Samsara is an expression of nirvana
- Taking life on the path