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Sogyal Rinpoche

We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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Believing Beyond Ordinary Senses
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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Hands Knowing Water
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
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General Information Intellectual Philospher Speech
The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
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Goodness Life Teaching Uncover Whole World
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries.
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Dark Discipline Meditation Practice
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.
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Disaster Inner Practice Refuge Spiritual Understanding
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
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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Fire Water Wisdom

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