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The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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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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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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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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Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to - you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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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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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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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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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.
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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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There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
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Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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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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