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Sogyal Rinpoche

Sogyal Rinpoche (Tibetan: བསོད་རྒྱལ་, Wylie: Bsod-rgyal) (born 1947) is a Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition. Before his retirement, in the wake of abuse allegations in 2017, he had been teaching for over 30 years in Europe, America, Australia and Asia. He is the founder and ex-spiritual director of Rigpa—an international network of over 100 Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world—and the author of the best-selling book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, which has been printed in 30 languages and 56 countries. Sogyal Rinpoche has been accused of sexual and physical assault and abuse, as well as misusing charitable funds, with allegations stretching back to the 1970s. Rigpa has said these allegations will be investigated by an outside party. Sogyal Rinpoche has not denied the allegations, but has stated that "I am clear in my own mind that I have never, ever, acted towards anyone with a motive of selfish gain or harmful intent".

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Our problems, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist.

Based, Come, Doe, Exist, Misunderstanding, Problem

Learning to live is learning to let go.

Learn To Let Go, Learning, Let, Letting Go, Live

There would be no chance to get to know death at all. . . if it happened only once.

Chance, Death, Happened, Know, Would Be

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Letting Go, Real, Believe, Reveals, Let

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

Emotions, Meditation, Mind, Ocean, Rays, Thoughts

In this complex world, the best way to survive is to be genuine.

Genuine, Inspirational Life, Survive, Way, World

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.

Compassion, Healing, Masters, Past

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

Healing, Choices, Our Actions, Forget, Thoughts, Choice

The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.

Action, Actions, Future, Hands, Our Actions

More and more, I have come to realize how thoughts and concepts are all that block us from always being. . . in the absolute. . . . When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.

Block, Emotions, Fleeting, Rigpa, View, Views

In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.

Effort, Ideas, Letting Go, Overly, Remain, Tax

Our lives are lived in intense and anxious struggle, in a swirl of speed and aggression, in competing, grasping, possessing and achieving, forever burdening ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations.

Achieving, Buddhism, Forever, Intense, Struggle

The purpose of meditation is to awaken in us the sky-like nature of mind, and to introduce us to that which we really are, our unchanging pure awareness, which underlies the whole of life and death

Life And Death, Meditation, Mind, Pure, Purpose, Sky

So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [. . . ] Learning to live is learning to let go.

Clumsy, Happiness, Inspiring, Letting Go, Order, Way

When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

Beings, Death, Encouragement, Heartbreaking, Spiritual, Start

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Inspirational, Yoga, Meditation Practice, Meditate, Greatest, Learning

The definition of mantra is "that which protects the mind. " That which protects the mind from negativity, or that which protects you from your own mind, is called mantra.

Negativity, Mind, Definitions, Mantra

Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.

Different, Different Faces, Faces, Mind, Names

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

Spiritual, Buddhist, Yoga, Ask, Leave, Come

Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it worse Nirvana does not make it better It has never been born It has never ceased It has never been liberated It has never been deluded It has never existed It has never been nonexistent It has no limits at all It does not fall into any kind of category

Doe, Example, Fall, Limits, Nonexistent, Point

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