What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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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Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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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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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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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don’t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in.
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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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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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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When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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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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Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
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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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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.
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When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.
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Again and again we need to appreciate the subtle workings of the teachings and the practice, and even when there is no extraordinary, dramatic change, to persevere with calm and patience.
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{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don’t question or doubt whether I am in the “correct” state or not.
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