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Spiritual 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.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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
To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless.
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Mean Spiritual Warrior
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
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Compassion Death Karma
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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Believe Buddhist Home
There is no armor like perseverance.
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Armor Create Perseverance
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
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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Lying Peace Real
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
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Buddhism Issues Real
For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.
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Enligt Meditation Natural Release
Spiritual 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.
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Difficulties Fundamental The Lesson
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
At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually.
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Ocean Rivers Sea
Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer “yes” to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.
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Answer Both Impermanence Pursuit Urgent
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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Emotion Relative Transparent Welcome
{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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Doubt Effort Understanding

Spiritual 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.

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