Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes
Collection of top 59 famous quotes about Sogyal Rinpoche
Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Sogyal Rinpoche quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Rely on the message of the teacher, not on his personality; Rely
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Buddhist monk Sogyal Rinpoche put it this way: "Perhaps it is only those who understand just how fragile life is who know how precious it is.
— Lionel Fisher
The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.
— Sogyal 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
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation is not something that you can "do"; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However,
— Sogyal 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
A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion. More
— Sogyal Rinpoche
What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
— 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
Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation is bringing the mind home.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching ...
— Sogyal Rinpoche
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Anyone looking honestly at life will see that we live in a constant state of suspense and ambiguity.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Our society promotes cleverness instead of wisdom, and celebrates the most superficial, harsh, and least useful aspects of our intelligence.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Tibetan thangka paintings and derive strength from their beauty.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The Western poet Rainer Maria Rilke has said that our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure.12
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
— 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
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Don't get too excited. In the end, it's neither good nor bad.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
There is no armor like perseverance.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
The act of meditation is being spacious.
— Sogyal 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
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
In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
We and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence ...
— Sogyal Rinpoche
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
People will die as they have lived, as themselves.
— Sogyal 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
Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
There would be no chance to get to know death at all ... if it happened only once.
— Sogyal 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
There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.
— Sogyal 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
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.
— 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
The future is very much in our handsin our actions. — Sogyal Rinpoche
Life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else.
— Sogyal Rinpoche