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In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.
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Life Nature Spiritual
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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Confirm Longer Understanding Unshakable
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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Mean Spiritual Warrior
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
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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Climbing Helping Life Prioritise
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
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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Lying Peace Real
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
What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Any Clue Happen Reality
A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar
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Mind Mountain Nature Thick
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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Dark Discipline Meditation Practice
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
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual

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