Quote

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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
Actor
Lama
Writer
Everyone
Throughout
Action
Spirituality
Else
Significant
True
Consequence
Thought
Aware
Everything
Least
Interdependent
Real
Word
Smallest
Even
Universe
Consequences

More quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

Image
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
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness? Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
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.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being human - is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
What should we do with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
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.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
I can't say it strongly enough to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
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.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Image
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
Sogyal Rinpoche