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For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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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Death Even Karma Purify
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
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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Buddhist Spiritual Yoga
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 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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Disheartened Dynamics Lawa Trusting
Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.
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Life Nature Spiritual
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don’t question or doubt whether I am in the “correct” state or not.
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Doubt Effort Understanding
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
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
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
We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
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Dread Know Meditation Words
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey 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
And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.
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Happy Joy Meaning Source Strives
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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Home Meditation Practice

For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

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For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

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