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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

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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Death Mirror Thinking
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
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Buddhism Forever Struggle
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don’t we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
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Buddhism Lying Real
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
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
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever.
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Death Dying Forever
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
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
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
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Confirm Longer Understanding Unshakable
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
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

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