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Learning to live is learning to let go.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
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
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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Break Die Down Next Sick Suddenly
And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.
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Disaster Inner Practice Refuge Spiritual Understanding
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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Death Karma Real
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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Compassion People Teacher Themselves
The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.
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Cover Death Eyes Jhour Postpone Uncertain
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
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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Inspired Moments Powerful
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased.
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Country Describe Example Fall
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
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
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
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
Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer “yes” to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.
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Answer Both Impermanence Pursuit Urgent

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