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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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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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Block Celebration Discourage Real Spring
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
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually.
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Ocean Rivers Sea
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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Hands Knowing Water
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
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
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
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Confusion Nature Spiritual
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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Accomplishment Essence Mind
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
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
We start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
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Compassion Fragility Preciousness

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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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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