Nhat Hanh Quotes About Concentration

Quotes about: Concentration

• Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

• To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about the past or worries about the future. If you are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. You can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Regret, Mean

• When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Healing, Heart

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Edition)”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

• If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dream, Cells, Practice

  "Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh: only love can save us from climate change". Interview with Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2013.

• The Noble Eight-Fold Path is the path of living in awareness. Mindfulness is the foundation. By practicing mindfulness, you can develop concentration, which enables you to attain understanding. Thanks to right concentration, you realize right awareness, thoughts, speech, action, livelihood and effort. The understanding which develops can liberate you from every shackle of suffering and give birth to true peace and joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Eight, Giving, Effort

• The 7 factors of enlightenment: mindfullness, investigation of mental objects, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration and equanimity.

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Enlightenment, Energy

• If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Thinking, Creating

  "This Is the Buddha’s Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. March 1, 2006.

• The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.

  Nhat Hanh

  Letting Go, Joy, Mindfulness

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation”, p.76, Harmony

• The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Tea, Cups

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.77, Shambhala Publications

• In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power of concentration, bringing forth deep insight and awakening. Mindfulness is the base of Buddhist practice

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Keys

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