Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEIsn’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?
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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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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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind.
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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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Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.
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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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The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.
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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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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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A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
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When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Our 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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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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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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