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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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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.
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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.
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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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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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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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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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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
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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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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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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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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well Meditation is the road to enlightenment.
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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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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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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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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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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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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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