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The act of meditation is being spacious.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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Believing Beyond Ordinary Senses
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
How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.
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Disheartened Dynamics Lawa Trusting
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer “yes” to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.
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Answer Both Impermanence Pursuit Urgent
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
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
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
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
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
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Meditation Self Spiritual
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
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
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Buddhism Forever Struggle
The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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Communication Heartfelt Life Things
So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
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Control Home Leaving Scattered
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 act of meditation is being spacious.

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