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

Sogyal Rinpoche

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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Death Mother Running
And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
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Nature Reality Show Subtlest Sunlight Working
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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Coats Day One Patches
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.
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Believe Letting Go Real
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment.
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Death Karma Powerful
The future is very much in our hands–in our actions.
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Action Actions Hands Our
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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Difficult Hands Mean Situations
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
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Misunderstanding Our Problem
The whole of our life is a teaching of how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing it.
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Goodness Life Teaching Uncover Whole World
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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Buddhist Spiritual Yoga
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.
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Compassion Inescapable Moment Natural Urgent
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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