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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 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
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
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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Death Dying Mirror
Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased.
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Country Describe Example Fall
When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .
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Disappointed More Occurs Such Things Useful
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow.
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Go Inspiring Letting Order
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
We know, in Milarepa’s words: “This thing called ‘corpse’ we dread so much is living with us here and now.”
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Dread Know Meditation Words
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever.
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Death Dying Forever
The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
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Goodness Life Teaching Uncover Whole World
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
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don’t we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
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Buddhism Lying Real
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?
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Death Desire Living Truly Trying
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation

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

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