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Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don’t we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

Sogyal Rinpoche

if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.
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Character Important Mindstream
Spiritual warriors can still be frightened, but even so they are courageous enough to taste suffering, to relate clearly to their fundamental fear, and to draw out without evasion the lessons from difficulties.
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Difficulties Fundamental The Lesson
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 key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
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
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
. . . 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
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
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Attachment Learning Life
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
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
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
What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?
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Being Consulting Karma Knowledge Negative
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

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