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Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
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
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 whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
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Goodness Life Teaching Uncover Whole World
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
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death.
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Death Real Repeating Spiritual Tragedy Wisely
Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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Misunderstanding Our Problem
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
All my masters would give this as their advice, for this is the essence of what is needed as you come to die: “Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with Buddha.”
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Attachment Buddha Essence Master Mind Needed
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.
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Death Karma Real
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
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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Gratitude Intelligent 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
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries.
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Dark Discipline Meditation Practice
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow.
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Go Inspiring Letting Order

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