Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
SOGYAL RINPOCHEOur lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.
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Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
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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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For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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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 act of meditation is being spacious.
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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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How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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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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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.
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Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries.
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There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
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The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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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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