This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEEven though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
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How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.
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Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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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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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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At a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.
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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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The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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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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We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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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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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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There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change.
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