"Just as if you put your finger into……" — Sogyal Rinpoche

"Just as if you put your finger into water, it will get wet, and if you put it into fire, it will burn, so if you invest your mind in the wisdom mind of the Buddhas, it will transform into their wisdom nature."

— Sogyal Rinpoche

96 Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

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What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from…
We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don't know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real…

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Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why… — Hsuan Hua
There is nothing that does not get easier through cultivation. The buddhas of the past started out as ordinary beings.… — Dalai Lama
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community)… — Shinjo Ito
Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower… — Rajneesh
All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart… — Hakuin Ekaku
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about.… — Rajneesh
Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and… — Rajneesh
Don`t be imitators. The mind is an imitator, because it is easier to play the game of imitation than to… — Rajneesh
Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as… — Pope John Paul II
To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas. — Daisaku Ikeda
You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way. — Gautama Buddha

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