Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
SOGYAL RINPOCHETrue 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.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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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?
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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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{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don’t question or doubt whether I am in the “correct” state or not.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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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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When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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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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When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.
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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
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Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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