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What should we do with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
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Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being human - is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness.
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There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
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I can't say it strongly enough to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation
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True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
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Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?
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In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
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There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.
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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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