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“Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.”

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Sogyal Rinpoche, born in 1947, is a renowned Tibetan Buddhist Lama. He is known for his profound insights into the modern world and his efforts in popularizing Tibetan Buddhism. more

“Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live for, and discourage people from even believing that it exists. And to think that all this springs from a civilization that claims to adore life, but actually starves it of any real meaning; that endlessly speaks of making people “happy”, but in fact blocks their way to the source of real joy.”

Source: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

“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?”

Knows Persons Has Beens Moments Wanted Left Silence Activity Boring Stranger Familiar Noise Props

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“Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.”

Mind Different Faces Names Given Essentials Saint Interpretation Realisation Different Names Different Faces

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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”

Ifs Trying Mind Strong Natural Dark Wind Mountain Sitting Clouds Bother Ease Thick Soar Majesty Steadfast Swirls Dark Clouds

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“Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation”

Used Meditation Invitations

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

I Can Enough Whole Action Purpose Meditation Integrating

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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”

Mind Whole Purpose Meditation Sky Awareness Pure Life And Death Introducing Unchanging

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“Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.”

May Meditation

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“Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature.”

Buddha Nature

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