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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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Heartbeat Mountain Shore Stream
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
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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Category Deluded Limits Nonesxisted
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Any Clue Happen Reality
The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Meditation Mind Spiritual
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
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Block Celebration Discourage Real Spring
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
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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Death Mirror Thinking
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don’t question or doubt whether I am in the “correct” state or not.
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Doubt Effort Understanding
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
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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Nature Reality Show Subtlest Sunlight Working
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
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Believe Letting Go Real

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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