How we live now can cost us our entire future.
SOGYAL RINPOCHETheories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.
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It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called “egolessness.
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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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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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All my masters would give this as their advice, for this is the essence of what is needed as you come to die: “Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with Buddha.”
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And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
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This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death.
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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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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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Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.
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When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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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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