Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEReal devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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We start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
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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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When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .
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Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind.
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The act of meditation is being spacious.
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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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Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.
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When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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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 in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
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We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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