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.
SOGYAL RINPOCHELearning to live is learning to let go.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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We start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.
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When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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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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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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Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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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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Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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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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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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