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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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Awake
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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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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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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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There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
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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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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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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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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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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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What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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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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We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
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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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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
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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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Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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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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