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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual
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
At a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.
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Absolute Deathless Mind Nature
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever.
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Death Dying Forever
As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
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Continually Devotion Generate Interdependent Process Progress
Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Go Learn Learning Letting
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Awareness Essence Nature
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
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
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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Compassion Fragility Preciousness
Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
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Devotion Discipline Essential Mind

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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