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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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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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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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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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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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We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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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 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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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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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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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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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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Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.
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Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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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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What should we do with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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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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