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.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEAgain 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.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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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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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 real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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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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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in.
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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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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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When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.
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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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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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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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Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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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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A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar
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