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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
True 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.
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Action Consequences Real Spirituality
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
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
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Different Faces Mind Names
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle 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
Learning to live is learning to let go.
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Go Learn Learning Letting
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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Lying Peace Real
Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
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Devotion Discipline Essential Mind
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
Don’t you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.
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Inspired Moments Powerful
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
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
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
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow

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