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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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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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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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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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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside 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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There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once.
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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
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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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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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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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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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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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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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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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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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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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