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A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.

Sogyal Rinpoche

All my masters would give this as their advice, for this is the essence of what is needed as you come to die: “Be free of attachment and aversion. Keep your mind pure. And unite your mind with Buddha.”
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Attachment Buddha Essence Master Mind Needed
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.
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Disaster Inner Practice Refuge Spiritual Understanding
The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
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Communication Heartfelt Life Things
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
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Confusion Nature Spiritual
The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.
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Balance Keys Simplicity
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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Emotion Liberate Miracle Real
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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Dark Discipline Meditation Practice
What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Any Clue Happen Reality
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
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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Climbing Helping Life Prioritise
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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Different Faces Mind Names
. . . 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
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Spiritual Teaching West
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual

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