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“Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being

“The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Vipassan meditation is the best way to unlearn old habits of basal ganglia and amygdala, and strengthen the neocortex of the brain.”
― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management

“Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.”
― Amit Ray

“The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one of intense pleasure and happiness, brought about by purely mental means, which thereby automatically eclipses any pleasure arising in dependence on material objects. Thus absorption functions as a powerful antidote to sensual desires by divesting them of their former attraction.”
― ������������, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization

“If you don't have the treasure of Noble truth, you are still poor even if you have loads of money and wealth. Because external wealth are belongs to this world. You have to leave them here.”
― Suman Jyoty Bhante

“We attach to anything or anybody because we think that they make us happy. We attach to the happiness so much. On the other hand we can say that we only attach to the happiness. Not to anything else or anybody else.”
― Suman Jyoty Bhante

“When you do good, let it be good in line with nature. Don't latch onto the thought that you're good. If you get attached to the idea that you're good, it will give rise to lots of other attachments.”
― Suman Jyoty Bhante

“COURTESY

We never talk ill of a departed soul; our world
would be a much nicer place if we extended the
same courtesy to those who are yet to depart.”
― Amar Ochani, Inner Explorations of a Seeker

“BE HAPPY

90% of our worries are about things that may
never happen; the remaining 10% are about
things that have already happened.”
― Amar Ochani, Inner Explorations of a Seeker

“Look upon friend and foe with equal regard, be not lifted up by praise or cast down by blame, regard heat and cold, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor with the same quiet inner eye in harmony with all creation.”
― G.J. Berger, Four Nails

“Vipassanā isn’t about becoming perfectly calm.
It’s about becoming real �� moment by moment.
Grief doesn’t ask you to get over it. Love doesn’t require you to be fearless. Vipassanā says: just notice what’s here�� and stay.
That is more than enough.”
― G. Scott Graham, Come As You Are: Five Years Later

“Never forget to your parents, If there is anyone who loves you really more than theirself its Only parents. Respect their feelings and emotion. They are most well wisher of their child.”
― Suman Jyoty Thera

“Knowing ownself is better than to knowing others.”
― Suman Jyoty Bhante

“WORK

Work is never hard or soft; it becomes
hard when we have no heart in it.”
― Amar Ochani, Inner Explorations of a Seeker

“WOMEN

If you want to imagine the world without women,
imagine a world without love and light.”
― Amar Ochani, Inner Explorations of a Seeker

“Religions are like a ladder. If you cling to them, you cannot progress further. Religious organizations have their hidden agenda. They heavily rely on the past. They want to drag you towards the past. But you have to stand on your own. You have to work for your own liberation. Liberation is a state of mind and that is achievable right in this moment. It all depends on your choice. The moment you take the decision, you are free from the past; you are free from the thoughts.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“As a psychological practice, this Way allows you to break negative states into small manageable pieces, thus loosening their power over you. By “negative states�� I mean things like difficult emotions, limiting beliefs, judgments, urges leading to unproductive behaviors, and so forth. By “manageable pieces�� I mean individual images, individual self-talk phrases, and specific body locations where the emotional sensations are arising. Learning to focus on just one of these at a given moment will reduce your sense of overwhelm. You stop being like a ping-pong ball pummeled about by words in your head, emotions in your body and pictures on your mental screen.”
― Shinzen Young, Five Ways to Know Yourself

“The sound of silence was beginning to get louder, and familiar. And I was deeply in love with it.

Not only does it not involve religious practices, it makes you shed all religious affiliations for ten days. What you are left with is your bare breath. That becomes the only thing you focus on �� your personal rosary.

There are no pictures of gurus, or even of the Buddha himself. There are no personalised gods or its dubious derivates �� dogmas, or godmen �� to prostrate before. No hugs, kisses, threads, amulets, satins or holy ash. No holy ‘trap�� of devices designed for an instant osmosis of blessings. No grand trickery that makes life here a hell in promise of a heaven there. It shows us the same arduous path that some of the enlightened men have walked. Men who can only show the path and are not the destination; where they communed with their truth, or, for lack of a better word, their God, in silence. The choice is left to us, to walk, stroll, stray, or squat on that path. [Many men; Ab to Za, all those alphabets and all the other men in between�� Same grand truth, revealed in parts�� Same path, seemingly different�� Same destination��. No single path.] But Vipassana does not offer us the easier path of pleading, coaxing, extorting or seducing such men for easy blessings.
It nudges you to start walking. To be your own blessing. To create your own miracles.”
― Rasal, I Killed the Golden Goose : A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS, THOUGHTLESSNESS, SILENCES, POEMS & SOME ‘SHOT�� STORIES

“The sound of silence was beginning to get louder, and familiar. And I was deeply in love with it.


I stopped being mute, and became dumb again.

There are no pictures of gurus, or even of the Buddha himself. There are no personalised gods or its dubious derivates �� dogmas, or godmen �� to prostrate before. No hugs, kisses, threads, amulets, satins or holy ash. No grand trickery that makes life here a hell in promise of a heaven there. It shows us the same arduous path that some of the enlightened men have walked. Men who can only show the path and are not the destination; where they communed with their truth, or, for lack of a better word, their God, in silence. The choice is left to us, to walk, stroll, stray, or squat on that path. [Many men; Ab to Za, all those letters of alphabets and all the other men in between�� Same grand truth, revealed in parts�� Same path, seemingly different�� Same destination��. No single path.] But Vipassana does not offer us the easier path of pleading, coaxing, extorting or seducing such men for easy blessings.
It nudges you to start walking. To be your own blessing. To create your own miracles.”
― Rasal, I Killed the Golden Goose : A COLLECTION OF THOUGHTS, THOUGHTLESSNESS, SILENCES, POEMS & SOME ‘SHOT�� STORIES

“Patience leads to Nibbana,�� as the saying goes. This saying is most relevant in meditational effort. One must be patient in meditation. If one shifts or changes one’s posture too often because one cannot be patient with the sensation of stiffness or heat that arises, samadhi (good concentration) cannot develop. If samadhi cannot develop, insight cannot result and there can be no attainment of magga (the path that leads to Nibbana), phala (the fruit of that path) and Nibbana. That is why patience is needed in meditation. It is patience mostly with unpleasant sensations in the body like stiffness, sensations of heat and pain, and other sensations that are hard to bear. One should not immediately give up one’s meditation on the appearance of such sensations and change one’s meditational posture. One should go on patiently, just noting as “stiffness, stiffness�� or “hot, hot.�� Moderate sensations of these kinds will disappear if one goes on noting them patiently. [...] One then reverts to noting the rising and falling of the abdomen.”
― Mahasi Sayadaw, Fundamentals of Vipassana Meditation

“They allow the spark of sensation to ignite a raging fire before trying to extinguish it, needlessly making difficulties for themselves. But if they learn to observe the sensations within the body objectively, they permit each spark to burn itself out without starting a conflagration.”
― William Hart, (The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation as Taught by S.N. Goenka) [By: Hart, William] [May, 1987]