The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
{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… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind." That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
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,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
