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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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Our problems, all come from nothing they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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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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