Learning to live is learning to let go. Sogyal Rinpoche More Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche More Quotes From Sogyal Rinpoche When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality. Sogyal Rinpoche west teaching spiritual Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha’s buddha nature. Sogyal Rinpoche buddha-nature In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected. Sogyal Rinpoche buddhist mirrors death Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category Sogyal Rinpoche example doe fall Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off. Sogyal Rinpoche patches coats one-day Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being human - is to be happy. All of us share the same wish, and the same right, to seek happiness and avoid suffering. Even following a spiritual path, or the religious life, is a quest for happiness. Sogyal Rinpoche religious spiritual heart There would be no chance to get to know death at all ...if it happened only once. Sogyal Rinpoche happened chance would-be Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things. As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion; the devotion we arouse itself generates glimpses of the nature of mind, and these glimpses only enhance and deepen our devotion to the master who is inspiring us. So in the end devotion springs out of wisdom: devotion and the living experience of the nature of mind becomes inseparable, and inspire one another. Sogyal Rinpoche nature spiritual life Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha. Sogyal Rinpoche thich-nhat-hanh voice writing This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality? Sogyal Rinpoche clue reality world Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know. Sogyal Rinpoche next tomorrow firsts
