Quotes by S. N. Goenka

S. N. Goenka

Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

Benefits

Harmony

Real

Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensation’s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.

Passing Away

Practice

Truth Is

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

Journey

Mind

Real

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

Matter

Two

Yield

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.

Buddhism

Speech

Vipassana

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

Firsts

Mind

World

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

Goal

Past

Use

In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.

Long

Running

Two

It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness. The so-called happiness that one experiences by having money, power, and indulging in sensual pleasures is not real happiness. It is very fragile, unstable and fleeting. For real happiness, for lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and get rid of all the unhappiness stored in the deeper levels of the mind. As long as there is misery at the depth of the mind all attempts to feel happy at the surface level of the mind prove futile.

Happy Life

Journey

Real

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

Creating

Freedom

Iron

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Art

Aversion

Being Successful

Benefits

Bondage

Buddhism

Compassion

Creating

Darkness

Decision

Differences

Dream

Dying

Enabling

Escaping

Faults

Firsts

Freedom

Goal

Happy Life

Harmony

Hatred

Ill Will

Inspirational

Iron

Journey

Life

Light

Long

Madness

Matter

Mind

Misery

Mistake

Moments

Negativity

Passing Away

Past

People

Practice

Real

Reality

Running

Speech

Successful

Taught

Time

Today

Training

Truth Is

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Quotes by S. N. Goenka

S. N. Goenka

Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

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.

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

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