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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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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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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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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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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.
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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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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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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.
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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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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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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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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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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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And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called egolessness.
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Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.
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