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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

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
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Awareness Essence Nature
. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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Angel Believe Drama
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment.
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Death Karma Powerful
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
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Meditation Self Spiritual
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Meditation Mind Spiritual
Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.
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Death Even Karma Purify
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
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists.
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Block Celebration Discourage Real Spring
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
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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Climbing Helping Life Prioritise
So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
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Control Home Leaving Scattered
The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
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

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