What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEAll too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle.
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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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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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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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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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Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.
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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
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How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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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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The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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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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