There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change.
SOGYAL RINPOCHEThe gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
More Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
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…we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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Learning to live is learning to let go.
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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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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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Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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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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Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?
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Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.
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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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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
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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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