Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
SOGYAL RINPOCHEThis 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.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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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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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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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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Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.
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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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And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.
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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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There is no armor like perseverance.
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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?
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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.
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