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• Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. 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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  Silence, Noise, Stranger

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• 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. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.

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  Buddhist, Believe, Home

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.businessinsider.com. 1992.

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• 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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  Mean, Hands, Difficult Situations

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• It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

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  Healing, Past, Compassion

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• 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. Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat, I hear the sound of impermanence. These changes, these small deaths, are our living links with death. They are death's pulses, death's heartbeat, prompting us to let go of all the things we cling to.

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  Death, Letting Go, Dying

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jan 19, 2015

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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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  Home, Practice, Meditation

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• True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.

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  Real, Action, Spirituality

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• 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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• There is no armor like perseverance.

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  Perseverance, Armor

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• Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity; but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography", our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit card ... It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?

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  Spiritual, Jobs, Believe

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Meditation is bringing the mind home.

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  Home, Meditation, Mind

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• Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

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  Happiness, Mind, Speak

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• We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

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  May, Habit

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

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  Sky, Mind, Awake

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• Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.

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  Struggle, Buddhism, Forever

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• Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

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  Next, Firsts, Tomorrow

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

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  Self, Relax, Ease

  "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

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• 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

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• Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth

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  Real, Unbroken, Devotion

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• 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

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• 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, Mind, Lost

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• 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

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• We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

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  Death, Character, Mind

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Aug 12, 2013

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• 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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  Powerful, Inspired, Moments

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• 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

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