“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.” KnowsMomentsSpiritualDeathGrowsCompassionClearDyingEncouragementBurningDeath And DyingLimitlessHeartbreakingFragilitySentient Beings Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts: to ask for the compassion of the enlightened beings, to ask for purification and healing, to ask for the power to understand the meaning of our suffering and transform it; at a relative level to ask for the growth in our lives of clarity, peace, and discernment, and to ask for the realization of the absolute nature of mind that comes from merging with the deathless wisdom mind of the master.” NeedsMindHeartHelpingSufferingAsksGrowthLevelsHealingCompassionOur LivesHumilityMastersPrideAbsolutesDepthClarityRealizationEnlightenedRelativeDiscernmentPurificationDeathlessMerging Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.” WayLooksForceLove IsCompassionDying Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?” PeopleNeedsGivingMomentsDeathSufferingCompassionPracticeOur LivesWonderfulDyingNegativeKarmaUrgentConsolingPurifyingMoments In Our LivesNegative Karma Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingHelpingDeathTurnsChanceCompassionTeacherDyingHealDeveloping Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.” IfsTwoMomentsRememberDeathAsksUnderstandingAnswersCompassionDyingEnlightenmentTreatsPursuitAll TimeUrgentImpermanenceEvery Second Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“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.” PastHealingCompassionKnownMastersSourceProtection Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
“Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.” HeartCompassionSpontaneous Author:Sogyal Rinpoche
