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The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
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
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
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
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
Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.
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Fire Water Wisdom
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever.
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Death Dying Forever
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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Compassion Dying Love
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
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
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
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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Character Important Mindstream
Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.
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Break Die Down Next Sick Suddenly
This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.
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Compassion Inescapable Moment Natural Urgent
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

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