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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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Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
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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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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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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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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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In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
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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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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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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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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.
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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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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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