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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

Sogyal Rinpoche

What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Meditation Mind Spiritual
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change.
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Death Dying Go Letting
Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.
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Life Nature Spiritual
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called “egolessness.
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Buddhist Ego Egolessness Important Mean
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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Hands Knowing Water
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.
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Happy Joy Meaning Source Strives
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
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
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually.
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Ocean Rivers Sea
Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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Heartbeat Mountain Shore Stream
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
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual
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

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

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