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Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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Accomplishment Essence Mind
Isn’t that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?
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Boring Civilization Moment Stranger
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
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
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
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
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
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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Buddhist Lost Mind
. . . 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
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
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Buddhism Issues Real
How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.
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Disheartened Dynamics Lawa Trusting
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
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

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

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Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

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