Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes

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

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Why, if we are as pragmatic as we claim, don't we begin to ask ourselves seriously: Where does our real future lie?

When I came to the West, I realized there was much hunger for spiritual teachings, but no environment for spirituality.

This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

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?

Yet is our deepest desire is truly to live and go on living, why do we blindly insist that death is the end? Why not at least try and explore the possibility that there may be a life after?

Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

How many of us are swept away by what I have come to call an 'active laziness'?It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

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