Tsoknyi Rinpoche

The point is to be free, not to be crazy.

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We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it…

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Being carefree, you can fit in anywhere. If you’re not carefree you keep on bumping up against things. Your life becomes so…

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Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

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Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

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“True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any & all thought states.”

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Every time you connect, a little bit more clarity stays around the love, a little bit more space opens up around it.…

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A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer,…

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When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep…

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Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things is still the nature of things. The Buddha is…

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Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

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Life begins with love, is maintained with love, and ends with love. Right now, while we're alive, is the time to practice…

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Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of…

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True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

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Instead of thinking of this and that, one thing after the other, let your mind recognize itself in a single moment. When…

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Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind.…

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Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

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Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

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Practicing discipline involves continually working to find space in our patterns, to find the gaps in the images we hold about ourselves.…

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You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright…

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Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look…

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Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.

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The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You…

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If we can allow some space within our awareness and rest there, we can respect our troubling thoughts and emotions, allow them…

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When you first start out don't set yourself a lofty goal of sitting down to meditate for twenty minutes. Aim instead for…

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