Sogyal Rinpoche
Born
Trehor, Kham, Tibet
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
153 editions
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published
1992
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Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying
10 editions
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published
1995
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Meditación
12 editions
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published
1991
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The Spirit of Buddhism: The Future of Dharma in the West
2 editions
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2003
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Living Well, Dying Well
3 editions
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published
1993
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The Future of Buddhism
7 editions
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published
2002
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A New Vision of Living and Dying
2 editions
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published
1997
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Dzoqchen and Padmasambhava
2 editions
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published
1990
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Zihin Kapılarının Ardındaki Sessizlik
2 editions
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published
2008
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Ancient Wisdom for a Modern World
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1995
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“Perhaps the deepest reason why we are afraid of death is because we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and separate identity — but if we dare to examine it, we find that this identity depends entirely on an endless collection of things to prop it up: our name, our "biography," our partners, family, home, job, friends, credit cards… It is on their fragile and transient support that we rely for our security. So when they are all taken away, will we have any idea of who we really are?
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living all the time but we never really wanted to meet. Isn't that why we have tried to fill every moment of time with noise and activity, however boring or trivial, to ensure that we are never left in silence with this stranger on our own?”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feelings fight for control over our inner lives that we find ourselves scattered everywhere, in all directions, leaving nobody at home.
Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.”
― The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
“Two people have been living in you all your life. One is the ego, garrulous, demanding, hysterical, calculating; the other is the hidden spiritual being, whose still voice of wisdom you have only rarely heard or attended to. ”
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