Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEThe most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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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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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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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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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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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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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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To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless.
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The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
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The act of meditation is being spacious.
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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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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind.
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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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This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.
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The other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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As you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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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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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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True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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