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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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Climbing Helping Life Prioritise
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
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
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
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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Death Even Karma Purify
Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Go Learn Learning Letting
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
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
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Devotion Discipline Essential Mind
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever.
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Death Dying Forever
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Awareness Essence Nature
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience.
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Giving Spiritual Teaching Up
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken

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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