Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes

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• Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

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  Spiritual, Buddhist, Yoga

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• Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

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  Letting Go, Real, Believe

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• The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

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  Communication, Things In Life, Heartfelt

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• When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

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  Death, Spiritual, Encouragement

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• The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

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  Keys, Simplicity, Balance

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

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• Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - 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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  Wise, Spiritual, Two

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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. 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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  Spiritual, Mean, Warrior

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

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  Doe, Problem, Misunderstanding

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• When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Confusion

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• 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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  Real, Buddhism, Issues

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• Learning to live is learning to let go.

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  Letting Go, Learning, Learn To Let Go

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

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  Healing, Choices, Our Actions

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• In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

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  Inspirational Life, Way, World

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• 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

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• The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.

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  Spiritual, Humble, Journey

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• There is no armor like perseverance.

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  Perseverance, Armor

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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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• Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. 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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  Strong, Dark, Clouds

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• 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

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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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• Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

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  Death, Thinking, Mirrors

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