Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
SOGYAL RINPOCHETomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
SOGYAL RINPOCHETo be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEEven though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEAt every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
SOGYAL RINPOCHEThis 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.
SOGYAL RINPOCHENormally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
SOGYAL RINPOCHEWhen we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
SOGYAL RINPOCHETrue spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEA real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
SOGYAL RINPOCHELight must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEThere is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEEvery time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
SOGYAL RINPOCHEWe 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.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEWhen the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.
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
SOGYAL RINPOCHEWe are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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