How we live now can cost us our entire future.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEDevote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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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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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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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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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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There is no armor like perseverance.
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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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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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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience.
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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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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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Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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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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Isn’t that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?
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Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
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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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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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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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