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Moments Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche
- We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever…
- At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful…
- I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment of death. He…
- If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what…
- For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality. As a result…
- At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are…
- Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat…
- Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when…
- Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living…
- When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense…
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
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