Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
SOGYAL RINPOCHEDon’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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How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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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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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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As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
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When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.
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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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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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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others.
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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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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.
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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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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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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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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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