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?
SOGYAL RINPOCHEThe whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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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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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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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
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For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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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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Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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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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There is no armor like perseverance.
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Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
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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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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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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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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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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow.
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There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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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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Don’t you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.
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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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Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.
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