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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
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
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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Death Real Repeating Spiritual Tragedy Wisely
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
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle.
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Extraordinary Hope Light Meditation Often Real
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
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
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
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
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
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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Buddhist Spiritual Yoga
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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Emotion Relative Transparent Welcome
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
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
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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Attachment Buddha Essence Master Mind Needed
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

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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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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