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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

Sogyal Rinpoche

This 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.
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Death Real Repeating Spiritual Tragedy Wisely
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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Hands Knowing Water
The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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Communication Heartfelt Life Things
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased.
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Country Describe Example Fall
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual
A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar
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Mind Mountain Nature Thick
Isn’t that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?
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Boring Civilization Moment Stranger
At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment.
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Death Karma Powerful
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
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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Compassion Death Karma
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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Lying Peace Real

What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

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