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When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
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Different Faces Mind Names
There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
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Confirm Longer Understanding Unshakable
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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Buddhist Lost Mind
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.
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Discipline Meditation Reality
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased.
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Country Describe Example Fall
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
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
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
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.
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Buddhist Death Mirrors
What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?
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Being Consulting Karma Knowledge Negative
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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Difficult Hands Mean Situations
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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Enligt Meditation Natural Release
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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Accomplishment Essence Mind
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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Compassion Dying Love

When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

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When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

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