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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Sogyal Rinpoche

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
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Believe Letting Go Real
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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Become Gorge Meditate Narrow The Occasion
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
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Block Celebration Discourage Real Spring
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
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
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Compassion Death Karma
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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Character Important Mindstream
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
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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Nature Reality Show Subtlest Sunlight Working
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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Buddhist Ego Egolessness Important Mean
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Spiritual Teaching West
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

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