Sogyal Rinpoche

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

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

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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

— Sogyal Rinpoche

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life.…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past.…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

The act of meditation is being spacious.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“You must constantly nourish openness, breadth of vision, willingness, enthusiasm, and reverence, that will change the whole atmosphere of your mind.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“The successive existences in a series of rebirths are not like the pearls in a pearl necklace, held together by a string,…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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

Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .

— Sogyal Rinpoche

True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought,…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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

— Sogyal Rinpoche

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

It is important to remember always that the principle of egolessness does not mean that there was an ego in the first…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again…

— Sogyal Rinpoche