Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow. Sogyal Rinpoche More Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche More Quotes From Sogyal Rinpoche Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature. Sogyal Rinpoche buddhist mind lost 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. Sogyal Rinpoche buddhism struggle forever Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts. Sogyal Rinpoche dying done death What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace, lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment of themselves and others. Sogyal Rinpoche enlightenment teacher needs 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. Sogyal Rinpoche relax self ease Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them. Sogyal Rinpoche eye death children More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being . . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa. Sogyal Rinpoche fleeting block views When one past thought has ceased and a future thought has not yet risen, Sogyal Rinpoche meditation hair past 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. Sogyal Rinpoche humility healing heart Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent. Sogyal Rinpoche gratitude intelligent real ...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . . Sogyal Rinpoche awareness nature essence For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result we clutch on to happiness and suffering as real, and in our unskillful and ignorant actions go on sowing the seeds of our next birth. Our actions keep us bound to the continuous cycle of worldly existence, to the endless round of birth and death. So everything is at risk in how we live now at this very moment: How we live now can cost us our entire future. Sogyal Rinpoche karma real death If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear. Sogyal Rinpoche clear mind water The future is very much in our hands--in our actions. Sogyal Rinpoche our-actions action hands The act of meditation is being spacious. Sogyal Rinpoche meditation Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar. Sogyal Rinpoche meditation-practice mountain mind Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation Sogyal Rinpoche invitations used meditation 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. Sogyal Rinpoche mind character death Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator. Sogyal Rinpoche meditation may The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart. Sogyal Rinpoche truth mind heart
