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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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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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The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.
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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 is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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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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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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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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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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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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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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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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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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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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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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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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