Martine Batchelor famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.
-- Martine Batchelor

#Practice #Mind #Skins
We have to be careful not to think that meditation is about getting rid of thoughts. On the contrary, I would say that meditation helps us to creatively engage with our thoughts and not fixate on them.
-- Martine Batchelor

#Creativity #Thinking #Meditation
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you--a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own 'buddha nature.' You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.
-- Martine Batchelor

#Faith #Wise #Creative
As long as we are focusing on the breath we do not feed our mental, emotional, and physical patterns. By returning to the breath again and again we start to dissolve their power. We develop a space between experience and our identification with it, thereby weakening the process that creates habits in the first place.
-- Martine Batchelor

#Emotional #Space #Long
Experiences are like cherry on the cake. It's nice, but that's not what's going to make a difference to the habit.
-- Martine Batchelor

#Nice #Cake #Differences

Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.
To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.
I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her . . . the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Martine Batchelor famous quotes

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