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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
The other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to – you have uncovered in yourself your own wise guide.
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Attendedm Rarely Other Uncovered
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
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
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Buddhist Lost Mind
What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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Meditation Mind Spiritual
It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category
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Category Deluded Limits Nonesxisted
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
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
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken
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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Mind Mountain Nature Thick
We are actually educated into believing that nothing is real beyond what we can perceive with our ordinary senses.
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Believing Beyond Ordinary Senses
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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Death Mirror Thinking
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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Boring Civilization Moment Stranger
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
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Buddhist Spiritual Yoga
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
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Death Life Meditation Sky
Don’t you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.
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Inspired Moments Powerful

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