IN-MINDFUL LIVING

The main point to [note] is that you have projected onto yourself a world of your own imagination, based on memories, desires and fears, and you have imprisoned yourself in it.Break the spell and be free. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj (Posted by bumlehri, Instagram, 4 December 2025) & there is no self.

I would regard a compassionate, warm, kindhearted person as healthy. If you maintain a feeling of compassion, loving-kindness, then something automatically opens your inner door. Through that, you can communicate much more easily with other people. And that feeling of warmth creates a kind of openness. You’ll find that all human beings are just like…

The world is not true. This Illusion is a game of hide and seek. It is a play, a cunning game of emotional imagination. ~ Raman Maharishi (Posted by bumlehri, Instagram, 18 November 2025) In the Absolute (the true nature of reality) there is not need of any kind,Even the need to know Oneself! ~…

If, upon looking outwards towards the external expanse of the sky, there are no projections emanated by the mind, and if, on looking inwards at one’s own mind, there is no projectionist who projects thoughts by thinking them, then, one’s own mind, completely free from conceptual projections, will become luminously clear. ~ Padmasambhava (Posted by…

1. Manifestation and sound arise from the subtle mental imprints created from thoughts.[In other words, explains the root of projection of experience of duality, that is essentially nondual]. As a picture in water disappears of its own accord, so false appearances automatically fade away when their lack of reality is understood. Beyond essential reality there…

A man verily becomes liberated in life if he feels; [Whatever he determines as ultimate reality] is the Doer [and that is already Perfected (its nature is empty of itself. Appears yet is empty, empty yet appears. This is the meaning of the Heart Sutra, all phenomena is in this nature truly. If we are…

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world. ~ H.H. Dalai Lama (Posted by Quotes from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Facebook, 7 November 2025) It captures a profound truth: happiness often comes from cultivating resilience, gratitude, and perspective within ourselves, rather than expecting the outside world to align perfectly. The…

I always tell you not to look at the faults of others, don’t I? According to the view of Secret Mantra. when vou see a fault in others vou should understand that vou see this fault due to vour own afflictions. Afflictions see afflictions. Looking at the affliction itself. vou recognize. “The fault I see…

There is nothing in this universe that can ever hurt you, no matter how things appear and how they look. First of all, you’re not your body. There is nothing hurtable. You’re not your mind, so there are no thoughts that can attack you, or destroy you, or repel you. You’re beyond that, you’re above…

Don’t worry if you feel you can only do one tiny good thing in one small corner of the cosmos. Just be a Buddha body in that one place. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh (Posted by bumlehri, Instagram, 15 November 2025)