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How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

Sogyal Rinpoche

The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Spiritual Teaching West
Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?
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Death Desire Living Truly Trying
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
At a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.
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Absolute Deathless Mind Nature
When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.
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Emotion Relative Transparent Welcome
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
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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Death Mother Running
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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Death Karma Powerful
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
So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
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Control Home Leaving Scattered
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
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Different Faces Mind Names
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
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.
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Attachment Learning Life
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
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

How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.

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