Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes About Meditation

Quotes about: Meditation

• What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

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  Life, Learning, Attachment

• Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

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  Ocean, Meditation, Mind

• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. 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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  Journey, Giving, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

• At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as you perfect meditation, thoughts become like the water in a deep, narrow gorge, then a great river slowly winding its way down to the sea; finally the mind becomes like a still and placid ocean, ruffled by only the occasional ripple or wave.

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  Ocean, Sea, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jan 25, 2016

• In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.

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  Letting Go, Ideas, Effort

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Apr 26, 2012

• 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. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

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  Dark, Meditation Practice, Discipline

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying”, p.11, Harper Collins

• When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen,
  in that gap, in between, isn't there a consciousness of the present moment;
  fresh, virgin, unaltered by even a hair's breadth of a concept, a luminous, naked awareness?
  Well, that's what naturally peaceful awareness is.

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  Past, Hair, Meditation

• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

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  Inspirational, Yoga, Meditation Practice

• 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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  Spiritual, Self, Meditation

• The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

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  Home, Practice, Meditation

• Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

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  Meditation Practice, Mind, Mountain

• The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

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  Meditation, Realization, Body

• Meditation is bringing the mind home.

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  Home, Meditation, Mind

• I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation

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  Meditation, Purpose, Action

• The act of meditation is being spacious.

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  Meditation

• 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. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

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  Peace, Real, Lying

• All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. 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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  Hope, Real, Light

• What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

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  Spiritual, Meditation, Mind

• Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

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  Meditation, May

• 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

• Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation

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  Meditation, Used, Invitations

• 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. And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

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  Reality, Discipline, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Feb 12, 2017

• 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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  Sky, Life And Death, Meditation

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