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Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.

Sogyal Rinpoche

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.
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Buddhist Death Mirrors
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
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
There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is hardly ever written about by writers or intellectuals; modern philosophers do not speak of it directly.
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General Information Intellectual Philospher Speech
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
How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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Cost Entire Future Live Now
This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
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Compassion Dying Love
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
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
Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature.
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Fire Water Wisdom
To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless.
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Mean Spiritual Warrior
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
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
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
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
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

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