127 Quotes by Sogyal Rinpoche

As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching...

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE.

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don’t we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

So one moment you have lost something precious, and then, in the very next moment, you find your mind is resting in a deep state of peace.

When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.