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

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.
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Discipline Meditation Reality
True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
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Action Consequences Real Spirituality
What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?
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Being Consulting Karma Knowledge Negative
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
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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Angel Believe Drama
As you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.
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Become Gorge Meditate Narrow The Occasion
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change.
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Death Dying Go Letting
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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Believe Jobs Spiritual
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle.
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Extraordinary Hope Light Meditation Often Real
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation

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