Knows Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

10 Knows quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche offers a concise meditation on knowledge, each line a quiet invitation to reflect on awareness.

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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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Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

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There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing…

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Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes…

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We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should…

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Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we…

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Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot…

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Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you.…

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Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a…

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If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no…

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

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{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state…

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

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

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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,…

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