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Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next.
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Break Die Down Next Sick Suddenly
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
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
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
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.
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Disaster Inner Practice Refuge Spiritual Understanding
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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Buddhist Lost Mind
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
As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
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Continually Devotion Generate Interdependent Process Progress
This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.
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Compassion Inescapable Moment Natural Urgent
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change.
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Death Dying Go Letting
Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer “yes” to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.
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Answer Both Impermanence Pursuit Urgent
What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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Enlightenment Needs Teacher
Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?
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Death Desire Living Truly Trying

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