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Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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.
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Gratitude Intelligent Real
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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Action Consequences Real Spirituality
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
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.
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Discipline Meditation Reality
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change.
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Death Dying Go Letting
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 spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
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Buddhism Issues Real
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Meditation Mind Spiritual
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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Goodness Life Teaching Uncover Whole World
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
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 general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
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General Information Intellectual Philospher Speech
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

Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.

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