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  1. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Aprender a vivir es aprender a desprenderse.
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  2. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    En ausencia de los elementos de apoyo que nos resultan familiares, quedamos cara a cara tan sólo con nosotros mismos: una persona a la que no conocemos, un extraño desconcertante con quien hemos vivido siempre, pero al que, en el fondo, nunca hemos querido tratar. ¿Acaso no es ése el motivo de que tratemos de llenar cada instante de ruido y actividades, por aburridas y triviales que sean, y evitemos quedarnos a solas y en silencio con ese desconocido?
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  3. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    What is a great spiritual practitioner? A person who lives always in the presence of his or her own true self, someone who has found and who uses continually the springs and sources of profound inspiration. As the modern English writer Lewis Thompson wrote: 'Christ, supreme poet, lived truth so passionately that every gesture of his, at once pure Act and perfect Symbol, embodies the transcendent.'To embody the transcendent is why we are here.
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  4. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so themind's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. The oceanhas waves, yet the ocean is not particularly disturbed by them.The waves are the very nature of the ocean. Waves will rise, butwhere do they go? Back into the ocean. And where do thewaves come from? The ocean. In the same manner, thoughtsand emotions are the radiance and expression of the very natureof the mind. They rise from the mind, but where do they dissolve?Back into the mind. Whatever arises, do not see it as aparticular problem. If you do not impulsively react, if you areonly patient, it will once again settle into its essential nature.
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  5. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life itself reveals again and again the opposite: that letting go is the path to real freedom.
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  6. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    When they went into solitude, followed a spiritual practice, and truly faced themselves and the fact of death, they were healed. What is this telling us? That when we accept death, transform our attitude toward life, and discover the fundamental connection between life and death, a dramatic possibility for healing can occur. Tibetan Buddhists believe that illnesses like cancer can be a warning, to remind us that we have been neglecting deep aspects of our being, such as our spiritual needs.4 If we take this warning seriously and change fundamentally the direction of our lives, there is a very real hope for healing not only our body, but our whole being.
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  7. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!
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  8. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freedfrom the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructiveview of permanence, from the false passion for security onwhich we have built everything. Slowly it dawns on us thatall the heartache we have been through from grasping at theungraspable was, in the deepest sense, unnecessary. At thebeginning this too may be painful to accept, because it seemsso unfamiliar. But as we reflect, and go on reflecting, ourhearts and minds go through a gradual transformation. Lettinggo begins to feel more natural, and becomes easier and easier.It may take a long time for the extent of our foolishness tosink in, but the more we reflect, the more we develop theview of letting go; it is then that a shift takes place in our wayof looking at everything.
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  9. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.
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  10. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Whatever we do, with our body, speech or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences.The results of our actions are often delayed. What you are is what you have been, what you will be is what you do now.
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  11. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide-and-seek and think that no one can see them.
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  12. Sogyal Rinpoche _ The Tibetan Book of Living and

    Do not make the mistake of imagining that the nature ofmind is exclusive to our mind only. It is in fact the nature ofeverything. It can never be said too often that to realize thenature of mind is to realize the nature of all things.
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