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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.
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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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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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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
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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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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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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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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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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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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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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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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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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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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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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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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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