1.
Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.
S. N. Goenka
Labour assiduously. Assiduously. Labour patiently and tenaciously. Patiently and tenaciously. And you're destined to be victorious. Destined to be victorious.
2.
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.
S. N. Goenka
3.
The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.
S. N. Goenka
The Buddha never propagated a restricted faith; he instructed Dhamma - the path to freedom - which is all-encompassing.
4.
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
S. N. Goenka
5.
I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it
Macklemore
6.
Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.
S. N. Goenka
7.
I am against conversion (to Buddhism). In my speech at UN, the first thing I said was that I am for conversion, but not from one organised religion to another, but from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
S. N. Goenka
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Vipassana meditation is not just seeing the things inside. It is also seeing the seer.
Amit Ray
9.
Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.
Eckhart Tolle