The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

mind is like a candle flame: unstable, flickering, constantly changing, fanned by the violent winds of our thoughts and emotions. The flame will only burn steadily when we can calm the air around it; so we can only begin to glimpse and rest in the nature of mind when we have stilled the turbulence of our thoughts and emotions

Meditation is not something that you can “do”; it is something that has to happen spontaneously

between the posture of the body and the attitude of the mind

As it is said, “Meditation is not striving, but naturally becoming assimilated into it.”

Sometimes when I meditate, I don’t use any particular method. I just allow my mind to rest, and find, especially when I am inspired, that I can bring my mind home and relax very quickly.

Let peace work on you and enable you to gather your scattered mind into the mindfulness of Calm Abiding, and awaken in you the awareness and insight of Clear Seeing. And

Rest in natural great peace

This exhausted mind

Beaten helpless by karma

to be spacious and to relax the mind of its tensions

To release means to release mind from its prison

bring your mind home, and release, and relax