QUI JON

“Feel, don't think, use your instincts.”
 Hoobie Qui-gon Jinn quotes ( Fictional character Jedi Master, )


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 No Anakin,nooo!
[Through the Force he tries to commune with Anakin in EpisodeII:Attack of the Clones,when Anakin kills all of the sand-people.
Qui-Gon Jinn


Anakin Skywalker
You're asking me to be rational. That is something I know I cannot do. Believe me, I wish I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't.

Luke
Your overconfidence is your weakness.


Qui-Gon Jinn
Your focus determines your reality.

Luke
Jedi Masters don't go crazy -- they just get eccentric

Qui-Gon Jinn
The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent.

Anakin Skywalker
Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion -- which I would define as…unconditional
love -- is essential to a Jedi's life. So, you might say that we are encouraged to love.

Qui-Gon Jinn
Remember, concentrate on the moment. Feel... don't think. Use your instincts.

Shmi Skywalker
You can't stop the change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.



Count Dooku
I sense great fear in you, Skywalker. You have hate… you have anger… but you don't use them.

Once you are in the moment, the next thing is to be "mindful." This means that you are aware of what you are doing, of your body, of the moment.

Breathing meditation was actually seen being practiced by Qui-Gon in The Phantom Menace.

Near the end of the film, during the climactic battle with Darth Maul, the two become caught in a corridor of doors that open and close,

apparently on a timer. As they approach the final door, Darth Maul gets through but Qui-Gon doesn’t.

Instead of yelling at or taunting Darth Maul through the force field,

Qui-Gon simply kneels, closes his eyes, and breathes calmly. He is quieting his mind and collecting himself. He is truly in the moment.



Seeing the true nature of things is one of the keys to being Jedi. Abandoning preconceptions,

avoiding being caught up in past and future, and focusing on the present are all things that Jedi masters teach their apprentices.



At the beginning of The Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan are in the meeting room aboard the trade federation vessel,

Obi-Wan begins thinking about things yet to come. Qui-Gon tells him to keep his mind focused on the here-and-now.

In response, Obi-Wan says, "But master Yoda says that I should be mindful of the future." Qui-Gon replies,

"Yes, but not at the expense of the present." He is teaching his student to be aware and mindful. In Buddhism, this known as Right Mindfulness.


In A New Hope, Obi-Wan taught Luke that if he let go of his thoughts he could "hear" the Force speaking to him, guiding him.

 He said that this is because everything is connected through the Force. Later, in The Empire Strikes Back,

 Yoda teaches Luke of the interconnectedness of all things, that Luke and the rock are one in the same.


 We are all part of one another. Everything in existence is interdependent on everything else.



 "When you learn to quiet your mind, you will hear them speaking to you."

Again, this returns us to Right Mindfulness and being aware of and in touch with the moment.


If you had to sum up the goal of Buddhism in just four words it would be "the elimination of suffering."



Suffering can be caused by many things.

The desire for something you can’t have can cause you to suffer.


Nirvana is, in fact, the elimination of not only all suffering but also all concepts, all thought.



To this Yoda replies, "Everything! Fear is the path to the dark side.

Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering… I sense much fear in you."


What Yoda was telling him is that being controlled by fear makes it impossible to eliminate suffering and find happiness.

As we already know, Anakin ultimately will allow his fear to get the best of him and lead him to the dark side.

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 Zen and the Art of Being Jedi. May the Force be with you, always.