Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes

96 quotes in 1608 categories

• What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths of our hearts:…
• We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or…
• Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
• The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
• The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
• Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
• Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
• The act of meditation is being spacious.
• Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we…
• Meditation is bringing the mind home.
• Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
• Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
• Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves…
• Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.
• ...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
• Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating - the other is the hidden spiritual…
• In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,…
• Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in…
• What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion…
• This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

Browse Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes by Category