Activity Quote by B. Alan Wallace

“The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.”

B. Alan Wallace

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Activity Buddhism Buddhist Buddhist meditation Cultivation Discrimination Insight Intelligent Meditation Needs Philosophy of Mind Pointless Thinking Time Unintelligent Use Wisdom

More by B. Alan Wallace

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

B. Alan Wallace

Image

“Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.”

B. Alan Wallace

Image

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

B. Alan Wallace

Image

We are persons whose bodies can be objectively studied according to the impersonal laws of physics but whose minds are subjectively experienced in ways…

B. Alan Wallace

Image

Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet which is indispensable for maintaining your vitality and resistance to disease. Likewise, a balanced meditative practice…

B. Alan Wallace

Image

Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person…

B. Alan Wallace

Image

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

B. Alan Wallace

Image

Explore all 8 B. Alan Wallace quotes

More Activity quotes

Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

Henry Giroux

Image

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

Pope Leo XIII

Image

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Plato

Image

And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people…

Mohsin Hamid