The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEIt 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
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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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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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.
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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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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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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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When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
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Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in.
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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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