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Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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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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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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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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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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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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In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
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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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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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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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What should we do with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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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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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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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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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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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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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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There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
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