B. Alan Wallace Quotes

United States, Author
1950

Bruce Alan Wallace is an American author and expert on Tibetan Buddhism. His books discuss Eastern and Western scientific, philosophical, and contemplative modes of inquiry, often focusing on the relationships he sees between science and Buddhism. He is founder of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies.

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

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- Lies

Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet

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

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- Future
- Past
- Mindfulness
Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

B. Alan Wallace
- Cold
- Mountain
Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

B. Alan Wallace
- Life
- Time
- Night