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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.

Sogyal Rinpoche

The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.
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Cover Death Eyes Jhour Postpone Uncertain
Isn’t that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?
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Boring Civilization Moment Stranger
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
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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Compassion People Teacher Themselves
Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience.
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Giving Spiritual Teaching Up
At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment.
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Death Karma Powerful
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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Death Mirror Thinking
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in.
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Believe Buddhist Home
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
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Meditation Self Spiritual
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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Enlightenment Needs Teacher
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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Heartbeat Mountain Shore Stream
What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Any Clue Happen Reality

There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.

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