At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
SOGYAL RINPOCHETo be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless.
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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
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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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if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.
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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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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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When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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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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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually.
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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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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 the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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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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As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
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