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At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?

Sogyal Rinpoche

Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
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Block Celebration Discourage Real Spring
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
Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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Misunderstanding Our Problem
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
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
It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category
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Category Deluded Limits Nonesxisted
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
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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Believe Letting Go Real
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually.
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Ocean Rivers Sea
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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Absolute Deathless Mind Nature
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Go Learn Learning Letting
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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Death Mirror Thinking
In 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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Buddhist Death Mirrors
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Awareness Essence Nature

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