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Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
When we look in the mirror, the one thing we don't want to see is an ordinary human being.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
William Blake: He who binds to himself a Joy, Does the winged life destroy; He who kisses the Joy as it flies, Lives in Eternity's sunrise.7
— Sogyal Rinpoche
We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
If we could see the whole truth of any situation, our only response would be one of compassion.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
The point is to be free, not to be crazy.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Only the impossible is worth doing.
— Akong Rinpoche
With the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Being human means having power; specifically, the power to accomplish whatever we want.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Like this cup, you are full of opinions and speculations. To see the light of wisdom... you first must empty your cup.
— Lama Rinpoche
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. More
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Within our perceived weaknesses and imperfections lies the key to realizing our true strength.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Being aggressive, you can accomplish some things, but with gentleness, you can accomplish all things.
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
True confidence comes from realizing the view.
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
— Akong Rinpoche
Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation
— Sogyal Rinpoche
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
It's never too early or too late to benefit beings.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The truth about who we really are, beyond all appearances, is knowledge worth seeking.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.
— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
There is no emptiness without appearance, and there is no appearance without emptiness. That is what we call the interdependent nature.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
As Trungpa Rinpoche put it, "Everybody loves something, even if it's only tortillas." Bodhichitta
— Pema Chodron
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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,
— Sogyal Rinpoche
we are all each other's teacher.
— Arjia Rinpoche
Praying is not about asking; it's about listening ... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along. — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
There is no thing to see: you simply need to see that.
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
May the suffering of all beings be pacified.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The future is very much in our handsin our actions. — Sogyal Rinpoche
What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
There is no armor like perseverance.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Two aspects to the relative world: relaxation and time management.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them..
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Happiness and unhappiness are not primarily created by the material world or the physical body. First and foremost, they are decisions of the mind.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.
— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche
If everything were permanent, singular, or independent, nothing would change.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
It 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 Rinpoche
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The act of meditation is being spacious.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Love is the only cause of happiness. Its nature is all-pervasive like space. Love is the sunlight of the mind
— Garchen Rinpoche
Seeing that nothing is solid or permanent you begin to make yourself at home in the unknown.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
MY teacher Trungpa Rinpoche encouraged us to lead our lives as an experiment, a suggestion that has been very important to me.
— Pema Chodron
Don't get too excited. In the end, it's neither good nor bad.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The true opponent in a debate on emptiness is your own ego.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.
— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche
Practice is personal; no two people's experiences are alike.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The secret is not to "think" about thoughts, but to allow them to flow through the mind, while keeping your mind free of afterthoughts.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
— Garchen Rinpoche
When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
There would be no chance to get to know death at all ... if it happened only once.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
People will die as they have lived, as themselves.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.
— Bokar Rinpoche
Thoughts and emotions will always arise.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought.When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
We and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence ...
— Sogyal Rinpoche
On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
As long as you cultivate stillness, you may enjoy peace, but whenever your mind is a little bit disturbed, deluded thoughts will set in again.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN ...
— Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
A mantra is like meeting the Buddha or Bodhisattva himself.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
What good are thoughts and emotions-in fact all of our experiences-if not to increase our realization?
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche