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Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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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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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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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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Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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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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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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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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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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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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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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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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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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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
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Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
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