Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar
Sogyal RinpocheMore important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.
Sogyal RinpocheLight must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
Sogyal RinpocheIf the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.
Sogyal RinpocheDevote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if weยดre honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
Sogyal RinpocheIt is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.
Sogyal RinpocheWe often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.
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