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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book I (18)
After the exercise of the will has stilled the psychic activities, meditation rests only on the fruit of former meditations.
Bhagavad Gita
Bhakti Yoga (12.12)
Better indeed is knowledge than practice; than knowledge is meditation more esteemed; than meditation the abandonment of the fruits of actions; on...
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.20)
When thought is quiescent, restrained by the practice of Yoga; when, seeing the Self by the self, he is satisfied in his own Self;
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Fifth Method of Closing the Womb-Door (34.1-34.2)
Still, even when this is done, if the holding [phenomena] as real remaineth undissolved, the womb- door is not closed; and, if one be ready to enter...
Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra
Chapter 1: The Buddha Land (38)
Meditation (Dhyana) is the pure land of the Bodhisattva; when he shall arrive at full enlightenment, beings who can concentrate their minds without...
Bhagavad Gita
Karma Sanyāsa Yoga (5.12)
The steady-minded one, abandoning the fruit of action, attains the peace born of devotion. The unsteady one, attached to the fruit through the action...
Bhagavad Gita
Akṣhara Parabrahma Yoga (8.8)
Meditating with the mind engaged in the Yoga of constant practice, not passing over to any thing else, one goes to the Supreme Purusha, the...
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.15)
Thus always keeping the mind balanced, the Yogin, with the mind controlled, attains to the Peace abiding in Me, which culminates in Nirvana (moksha.)
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.12)
Making the mind one-pointed, with the actions of the mind and the senses controlled, let him, seated there on the seat, practise Yoga for the...
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (11)
'This, the firm holding back of the senses, is what is called Yoga. He must be free from thoughtlessness then, for Yoga comes and goes.'
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Third Method of Closing the Womb-Door (32.9)
Meditating thus, resolve firmly that thou wilt hold on to that [resolution]. It hath been said, in the Tantras, 'The door of the womb will be closed...
Bhagavad Gita
Mokṣha Sanyāsa Yoga (18.52)
Resorting to a sequestered spot, eating but little, speech and body and mind subdued, always engaged in meditation and concentration, endued with...
Bhagavad Gita
Akṣhara Parabrahma Yoga (8.28)
Whatever fruit of merit is declared to accrue from the Vedas, sacrifices, austerities and gifts, — beyond all this goes the Yogin on knowing this;...
Bhagavad Gita
Dhyāna Yoga (6.18)
When the well-restrained thought is established in the Self only, without longing for any of the objects of desire, then he is said to be a Saint.
Dhammapada
Chapter XXV: The Bhikshu (Mendicant) (372)
Without knowledge there is no meditation, without meditation there is no knowledge: he who has knowledge and meditation is near unto Nirvâna.
Katha Upanishad
Sixth Vallī (10)
'When the five instruments of knowledge stand still together with the mind, and when the intellect does not move, that is called the highest state.'