Masters Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

8 Masters quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche sees mastery as the compassionate awakening of mind, and these eight excerpts convey his gentle yet profound teachings. They offer a short, meditative window into his spiritual guidance.

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The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.

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Devotion {to the spiritual master} becomes the purest, quickest, and simplest way to realize the nature of our mind and all things.…

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I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment…

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Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of…

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. . . when the nature of mind is introduced by a master, it is just too simple for us to believe.…

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It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known,…

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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths…

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There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

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