The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death
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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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Isn’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?
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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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Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.
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For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.
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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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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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A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.
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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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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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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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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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