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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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