Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
SOGYAL RINPOCHESpiritual 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.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
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Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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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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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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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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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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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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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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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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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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In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.
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It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first place, and the Buddhists did away with it. On the contrary, it means there was never any ego at all to begin with. To realize that is called “egolessness.
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And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.
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What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
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How we live now can cost us our entire future.
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