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There is no armor like perseverance.
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside 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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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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Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
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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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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
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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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Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
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