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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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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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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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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
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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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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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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 is no armor like perseverance.
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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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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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Our problems, all come from nothing they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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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 purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Meditation is bringing the mind home.
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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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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.
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