The act of meditation is being spacious.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEIn the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.
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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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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
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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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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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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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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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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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How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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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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Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
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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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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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When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .
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Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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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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When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.
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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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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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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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