Sogyal Rinpoche

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

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

This world can seem marvellously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place. What will happen to us then if we have no clue of any deeper reality?

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

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

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.

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.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid heartfelt communication with others.

Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation.

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

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.

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.