“how hollow and futile life can be when it's founded on a false belief in continuity and permanence.” — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!” — 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
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected. — 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… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the… — 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… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and… — 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
Modern society seems to be a celebration of all the things that lead away from the Truth, make Truth hard to live… — 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
“The successive existences in a series of rebirths are not like the pearls in a pearl necklace, held together by a string,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The nature of mind is the nature of everything." I wonder if this threefold process the bardos reveal is true not only,… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial… — 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
