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Sogyal Rinpoche

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
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Spiritual Teaching West
There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
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Confirm Longer Understanding Unshakable
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew the water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.
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Hands Knowing Water
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
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Buddha Voice Writing
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
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Meditation Self Spiritual
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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Discipline Meditation Reality
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
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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Difficult Hands Mean Situations
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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Believe Jobs Spiritual
At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment.
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Death Karma Powerful
When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful. . . .
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Disappointed More Occurs Such Things Useful
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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Accomplishment Essence Mind
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
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
Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,
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Heartbeat Mountain Shore Stream

Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat,

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