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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
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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Disappointed More Occurs Such Things Useful
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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Different Faces Mind Names
Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Go Learn Learning Letting
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don’t we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
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Buddhism Lying Real
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.
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Fire Water Wisdom
What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Any Clue Happen Reality
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
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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Buddhist Spiritual Yoga
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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Enlightenment Needs Teacher
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
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
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
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
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Meditation Mind Spiritual

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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