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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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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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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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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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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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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.
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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well Meditation is the road to enlightenment.
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Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.
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Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
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When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
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This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
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Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar
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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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