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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

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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Country Describe Example Fall
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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Enligt Meditation Natural Release
Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.
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Fire Water Wisdom
For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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Compassion People Teacher Themselves
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
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
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
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
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
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
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
…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Awareness Essence Nature
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
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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Giving Spiritual Teaching Up

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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