Taking life seriously does not mean spending our whole lives
meditating as if we were living in the Himalaya Mountains or in the
old days in Tibet. In the modern world, we have to work to earn our
living, but we should not get entangled in a nine-to-five existence,
where we live without any view of the deeper meaning of life.

Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not
to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and
preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to
finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse".

http://www.rigpa.org

This is a part of one of text files in "files" part of this group.
Files is an open option for use by all members.
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The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying A Dialogue With Sogyal Rinpoche
With Swami Virato

The following is an exclusive interview(part of) from NEW FRONTIER
Magazine, November 1993 edition.  For subscription or other
information, contact NEW FRONTIER Magazine, 101 Cuthbert St.,
Phila.,PA 19106.  NEW FRONTIER MAGAZINE is published monthly by NEW
FRONTIER EDUCATION SOCIETY.

Question:
Buddhism is considered a "religion" in Western society, yet
your work seems to be embraced by the New Age community.

Sogyal Rinpoche Answer:
Interestingly, Buddhism is both a religion and a way of life.  For
those that believe in religion, Buddhism is very much a religion;
but for those who do not believe in religion, Buddhism is a science
of mind, a way of life.  There are many who reject institutionalized
religions, but accept Buddhist spiritual teachings.

It's a vehicle for realizing the truth of ourselves.  When you talk
about the Buddhist teachings, ultimately there is the state of non-
meditation. In a sense, it transcends all paths.

If you need ritual, ritual is a part of our life; if you
seek ceremony, the Tibetan tradition is extraordinarily rich; if you
want symbolism, we have it; if you prefer chanting, there is
chanting; if you don't want that, we have simple sitting; if you
want philosophy, we have philosophy; if you require psychology, we
have psychology; if you want non-meditation, we have
non-meditation.

Buddha wanted to reveal to everyone his enlightenment, which
he saw as the nature of everyone.  Unfortunately, he realized with
sadness that, even though we have the Buddha nature, it's been
somewhat limited by our ordinary mind. To use an example, take an
empty vase.  The space inside the vase is the same as the space
outside it, but the walls of the vase limit it.  The space inside
the vase is like our nature, limited by ordinary mind.  When you
become enlightened, it's as if you break the walls of the vase.  The
space inside becomes one with the space outside.  In fact, they were
never separated.  Buddha wanted to show this, but realized that to
convey the profound peace he had realized, he needed different
vehicles to suit different needs.  That's why in Buddhism there are
many vehicles, because ultimately Buddha did not have a teaching.
He did not come to teach a particular dogma.

What need is there to say more?
The childish work for their own benefit,
The buddhas work for the benefit of others.
Just look at the difference between them.

If I do not exchange my happiness
For the suffering of others,
I shall not attain the state of buddhahood
And even in samsara I shall have no real joy.>


SHANTIDEVA>

Quoted from book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

by SOGYAL RINPOCHE

http://www.rigpa.org

When you are practicing meditation, it's important not to get
involved in mental commentary, analysis, or internal gossip. Do not
mistake the running commentary in your mind ("Now I'm breathing in,
now I'm breathing out") for mindfulness; what is important is pure
presence.

Don't concentrate too much on the breath; give it about 25 percent of
your attention, with the other 75 percent quietly and spaciously
relaxed. As you become more mindful of your breathing, you will find
that you become more and more present, gather all your scattered
aspects back into yourself, and become whole.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse".

http://www.rigpa.org

The fundamental message of the Buddhist teachings is that if we are
prepared, there is tremendous hope, both in life and in death. The
teachings reveal to us the possibility of an astounding and finally
boundless freedom, which is ours to work for now, in life - the
freedom that will also enable us to choose our death and so to choose
our next birth.

For someone who has prepared and practiced, death comes not as a
defeat but as a triumph, the crowning and most glorious moment of
life.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE.

From book: "Glimpse After Glimpse".

http://www.rigpa.org

GENERATION OF BODDHICITTA

Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions, which
are like the illusory reflections of the moon in water,
Beings wander endlessly astray in samsara's vicious cycle.
In order that they may find comfort and ease in the luminosity
and all-pervading space of the true nature of their minds,
I generate the immeasurable love, compassion, joy and equanimity
of the awakened mind, the heart of Bodhicitta.

JIKMÉ LINGPA

-From book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

By SOGYAL RINPOCHE

http://www.rigpa.org

(can be also be spelled JIGMÉ LINGPA)

Our buddha nature has an active aspect, which is our "inner teacher."
From the very moment we became obscured, this "inner teacher" has
worked tirelessly for us, tirelessly trying to bring us back to the
radiance and spaciousness of our true being. Not for one second, my
master Jamyang Khyentse said, has the inner teacher given up on us.
In its infinite compassion, one with the infinite compassion of all
the buddhas and all the enlightened beings, it has been ceaselessly
working for our evolution - not only in this life but in all our past
lives - using all kinds of skillful means and all types of situations
to teach and awaken us and to guide us back to the truth.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

Two evenings with His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche
Day 1 - Dzogchen: Nature of Mind
Day 2 - White Tara Long Life Initiation and Teaching.

His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche is a Dzogchen meditation master, a
master of the Nyingmapa tradition of Buddhism, a renowned scholar of
Sutra, Tantra, astrology and medicine. Rinpoche is the fourth
incarnation in a lineage of scholars and saints from Kham, Tibet.

Dzogchen: Nature of Mind
- Saturday November 16 2:00 - 5:00PM

White Tara Long Life Initiation and Teaching
- Sunday November 17 2:00 - 5:00PM

Location:
Tibet House
22 West 15th Street, NYC

A suggested donation of $25 per day will be collected at the door.
Sponsored by the Nechung Foundation, NYC
(212) 388-9784, (212) 966-2404
http://www.nechungnyc.org

It all starts:
" Shambhala is a mystical kingdom as well as the only pure land
situated in this earth.
Shaped like a giant lotus having eight petals, it is surrounded by
rings of snowy mountain ranges and is shielded from the outside world
by its natural geographical composition and by supernatural
forces...." and goes on here:
http://www.kalachakra.com/Shambhala/Shambhala.htm

Then there is a link to a Vision that Kamtrul Rinpoche had, in detail
here:
"I am very happy to have this opportunity to tell of a dream I had in
which I had a vision of Shambhala. First of all, I want you to know
that we cannot rely too much on the kind of dreams that we usually
have, but the dream that I'm going to tell you about was a true dream
and I am happy that you are here to hear about it...." it goes on:
http://www.kalachakra.com/Shambhala/Vision/Vision.htm

Is karma really so hard to see in operation? Don't we only have to
look back at our own lives to see clearly the consequences of some of
our actions? When we upset or hurt someone, didn't it rebound on us?
Were we not left with a bitter and dark memory, and the shadows of
self-disgust? That memory and those shadows are karma. Our habits and
our fears too are also due to karma, the results of our past actions,
words, and thoughts. If we examine our actions, and become really
mindful of them, we will see that there is a pattern that repeats
itself. Whenever we act negatively, it leads to pain and suffering;
whenever we act positively, it eventually results in happiness.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From book: "Glimpse after Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

For us to survive on the spiritual path, there are many challenges to
face, and there is much to learn. We have to discover how to deal
with obstacles and difficulties; how to process doubts and see
through wrong views; how to inspire ourselves when we least feel like
it; how to understand ourselves and our moods; how really to work
with and integrate the teachings and practices; how to evoke
compassion and enact it in life; and how to transform our suffering
and emotions.

On the spiritual path, all of us need the support and the good
foundation that come from really knowing the teachings, and this
cannot be stressed strongly enough. For the more we study and
practice, the more we shall embody discernment, clarity, and insight.
Then, when the truth comes knocking, we will know it, with certainty,
for what it is, and gladly open the door, because we'll have guessed
that it may well be the truth of who we really are.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

Meditation is bringing the mind back home, and this is first achieved
through the practice of mindfulness.

Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He
told her to remain aware of every movement of her hands as she drew
water from the well, knowing that if she did, she would soon find
herself in that state of alert and spacious calm that is meditation.

-SOGYAL RIPOCHE

From book: "Glimpse after Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

Open people ask me: "How long should I meditate? And when? Should I
practice twenty minutes in the morning and in the evening, or is it
better to do several short practices during the day?" Yes, it is good
to meditate for twenty minutes, though that is not to say that twenty
minutes is the limit. I have not found in the scriptures any
reference to twenty minutes; I think it is a notion that has been
contrived in the West, and I call it Meditation Western Standard Time.

The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the
practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and
presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your
heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far
greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

As Buddha said in his first teaching, the root of all our suffering
in samsara is ignorance. Ignorance, until we free ourselves from it,
can seem endless, and even when we have embarked on the spiritual
path our search is fogged by it. However, if you remember this, and
keep the teachings in your heart, you will gradually develop the
discernment to recognize the innumerable confusions of ignorance for
what they are, and so never jeopardize your commitment or lose your
perspective.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

Every spiritual tradition has stressed that this human life is unique
and has a potential that ordinarily we don't even begin to imagine.
If we miss the opportunity this life offers us for transforming
ourselves, they say, it may well be an extremely long time before we
have another.

Imagine a blind turtle roaming the depths of an ocean the size of the
universe. Up above floats a wooden ring, tossed to and fro on the
waves. Every hundred years, the turtle comes, once, to the surface.
To be born a human being is said by Buddhists to be more difficult
than for that turtle to surface accidentally with its head poking
through the wooden ring.

And even among those who have a human birth, it is said, those who
have the great good fortune to make a connection with the teachings
are rare, and those who really take them to heart and embody them in
their actions even rarer—as rare, in fact, "as stars in broad
daylight."

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to
become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. In fact, many
kinds of cleverness are just further obscurations. There is a Tibetan
saying: "If you are too clever, you could miss the point entirely."

Patrul Rinpoche said: "The logical mind seems interesting, but it is
the seed of delusion." People can become obsessed with their own
theories and miss the point of everything. In Tibet we say: "Theories
are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off."

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

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

Just as when the waves lash at the shore, the rocks suffer no damage
but are sculpted and eroded into beautiful shapes, so our characters
can be molded and our rough edges worn smooth by changes. Through
weathering changes, we can learn how to develop a gentle but
unshakable composure. Our confidence in ourselves grows, and becomes
so much greater that goodness and compassion begin naturally to
radiate out from us and bring joy to others.

That goodness is what survives death, a fundamental goodness that is
in each and every one of us. The whole of our life is a teaching of
how to uncover that strong goodness, and a training toward realizing
it.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

http://www.rigpa.org

This Saturday and Sunday
-

-- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Two evenings with His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche
> Day 1 - Dzogchen: Nature of Mind
> Day 2 - White Tara Long Life Initiation and Teaching.
>
> His Eminence Khamtrul Rinpoche is a Dzogchen meditation master, a
> master of the Nyingmapa tradition of Buddhism, a renowned scholar
of
> Sutra, Tantra, astrology and medicine. Rinpoche is the fourth
> incarnation in a lineage of scholars and saints from Kham, Tibet.
>
> Dzogchen: Nature of Mind
> - Saturday November 16 2:00 - 5:00PM
>
> White Tara Long Life Initiation and Teaching
> - Sunday November 17 2:00 - 5:00PM
>
> Location:
> Tibet House
> 22 West 15th Street, NYC
>
> A suggested donation of $25 per day will be collected at the door.
> Sponsored by the Nechung Foundation, NYC
> (212) 388-9784, (212) 966-2404
> http://www.nechungnyc.org

Let's not take doubts with exaggerated seriousness, or let them grow
out of proportion, so that we become black-and-white or fanatical
about them. What we need to learn is how slowly to change our
culturally conditioned and passionate involvement with doubt into a
free, humorous, and compassionate one. This means giving doubts time,
and giving ourselves time to find answers to our questions that are
not merely intellectual or "philosophical" but living and real and
genuine and workable.

Doubts cannot resolve themselves immediately; but if we are patient,
a space can be created within us in which doubts can be carefully and
objectively examined, unraveled, dissolved, and healed. What we lack,
especially in this culture, is the right, undistracted, and richly
spacious environment of the mind, which can be created only through
sustained meditation practice, and in which insights can be given the
chance slowly to mature and ripen.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From ook: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi

This was taken from the Kagyu site.
Sun Nov 17, 2002  4:27 pm
Subject:  HE Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche passed away last night.

Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:06:07 -0600
Dear All,

HE Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche passed away last night.

Many of us know him as the chant leader on so many Rigpa practice
tapes and CDs, as well as the special connection he has had with
Sogyal Rinpoche and the Rigpa sangha.

Rinpoche has asked us to do a good practice today, especially in the
centers, or gathered together in people's homes. It would be
appropriate to practice Tendrel Nyesel, with either Confession
Liturgy of the Jnanadevas, or Narak Kong Shak. 100 syllable mantras
can be accumulated. The practice can be dedicated to HE Chagdud Tulku
Rinpoche, and that he pass through the bardos quickly.

Please make sure everyone in your sangha who practices TN or has a
connection with Chagud Tulku Rinpoche has this information today,

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives,
the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable
death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what
is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes
him incapable of living in the present.

CHUANG TZU


-SOGYAL RINPOCHE in the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi

Those who have been through the near-death experience have reported a
startling range of aftereffects and changes. One woman said:

The things that I felt slowly were a very heightened sense of love,
the ability to communicate love, the ability to find joy and
pleasures in the smallest and most insignificant things about
me. . . . I developed a great compassion for people that were ill and
facing death and I wanted so much to let them know, to somehow make
them aware that the dying process was nothing more than an extension
of one's life.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi

Follow up here, please read:
http://www.atiling.org

--- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> I am so much acustomed to idea of Chugdud Rinpoche somewhere out
> there, that it is hard to think of his passing. Esterday after
> teaching with Khamtrul Rinpoche i picked up an "old friend" of mine
> off the shelf "Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise
> Preliminary Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom" it is a book
> compiled from the teachings of His Eminence Chugdud Tulku by Jane
> Tromge. Only found out about his passing in the car going back home
> half hour ago.
>
> Guess it all means we will be "without" him for a few years, people
> who want to get aquainted with life story of this Precious Lama can
> get his autobiography titled "Lord of the Dance".
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 'I have not come nor gone. For those who have faith in me, I will
> surely appear before them. On the tenth day of each lunar month, I
> will personally come to see my disciples.'
> -Skt. Padmasambhava, Lit. the Lotus-born

Thanks for the quote.

Both these wonderful books are available on amazon:

Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise Preliminary
Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom
by Jane Tromge, Chagdud Tulku (Foreword);Paperback: 160 pages ;
Publisher: Padma Pub; ISBN: 1881847063; (October 1995);  $11.95

Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of Chagdud Tulku Lama
by Chagdud Tulku (Author), Ken Wilbur ;Paperback: 248 pages ;
Publisher: Padma Pub; ISBN: 1881847004; (December 1992);  $16.95

--- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Follow up here, please read:
> http://www.atiling.org
>
> --- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro <no_reply@y...> wrote:
i picked up an "old friend" of mine
> > off the shelf "Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise
> > Preliminary Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom" it is a book
> > compiled from the teachings of His Eminence Chugdud Tulku by Jane
> > Tromge. > > Guess it all means we will be "without" him for a few
years, people
> > who want to get aquainted with life story of this Precious Lama
can
> > get his autobiography titled "Lord of the Dance".
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 'I have not come nor gone. For those who have faith in me, I will
> > surely appear before them. On the tenth day of each lunar month,
I
> > will personally come to see my disciples.'
> > -Skt. Padmasambhava, Lit. the Lotus-born

Started looking over sites of Rinpoche and recalled they had very
good online store. Here is the link,
http://www.tibetantreasures.com/ttintro.htm

Page on texts is just amazing, they got everything else too, 2 texts
mentioned by Jigme Tromge Rinpoche are available from this site.

Main site is here:
http://www.chagdud.org

When we have prayed and aspired and hungered for the truth for a long
time, for many, many lives, and when our karma has become
sufficiently purified, a kind of miracle takes place. And this
miracle, if we can understand and use it, can lead to the ending of
ignorance forever: The inner teacher, who has been with us always,
manifests in the form of the "outer teacher," who, almost as if by
magic, we actually encounter. This is the most important encounter of
any lifetime.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi

I am only familiar with Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche through the reading of his book
*Gates to Buddhist Practice: Essential Teachings of a Buddhist Master* for a
Vajrayana Tantra course I took at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies this
past May with Lama John Makransky (associate of Lama Surya Das), and *Ngondro
Commentary* by Jane Tromge which Lama John also suggested I read. I now would
like to read more about him in *Lord of the Dance.* It is a great loss. May he
be reborn into a precious human life of great happiness and great well-being in
a safe place in which he may practice and continue to teach the Dharma.

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Topics in this digest:

1. Glimpse of the day, November 18th
From: kyabdro
2. Re: Hopes for swift return...
From: kyabdro
3. Re: Hopes for swift return...
From: "Cittamani"
4. Revisiting Rinpoche sites
From: kyabdro


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 14:47:05 -0000
From: kyabdro
Subject: Glimpse of the day, November 18th

Those who have been through the near-death experience have reported a
startling range of aftereffects and changes. One woman said:

The things that I felt slowly were a very heightened sense of love,
the ability to communicate love, the ability to find joy and
pleasures in the smallest and most insignificant things about
me. . . . I developed a great compassion for people that were ill and
facing death and I wanted so much to let them know, to somehow make
them aware that the dying process was nothing more than an extension
of one's life.

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE

From the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi



________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:31:26 -0000
From: kyabdro
Subject: Re: Hopes for swift return...

Follow up here, please read:
http://www.atiling.org

--- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro wrote:
> I am so much acustomed to idea of Chugdud Rinpoche somewhere out
> there, that it is hard to think of his passing. Esterday after
> teaching with Khamtrul Rinpoche i picked up an "old friend" of mine
> off the shelf "Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise
> Preliminary Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom" it is a book
> compiled from the teachings of His Eminence Chugdud Tulku by Jane
> Tromge. Only found out about his passing in the car going back home
> half hour ago.
>
> Guess it all means we will be "without" him for a few years, people
> who want to get aquainted with life story of this Precious Lama can
> get his autobiography titled "Lord of the Dance".
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 'I have not come nor gone. For those who have faith in me, I will
> surely appear before them. On the tenth day of each lunar month, I
> will personally come to see my disciples.'
> -Skt. Padmasambhava, Lit. the Lotus-born



________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________

Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:19:26 -0000
From: "Cittamani"
Subject: Re: Hopes for swift return...

Thanks for the quote.

Both these wonderful books are available on amazon:

Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise Preliminary
Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom
by Jane Tromge, Chagdud Tulku (Foreword);Paperback: 160 pages ;
Publisher: Padma Pub; ISBN: 1881847063; (October 1995); $11.95

Lord of the Dance: Autobiography of Chagdud Tulku Lama
by Chagdud Tulku (Author), Ken Wilbur ;Paperback: 248 pages ;
Publisher: Padma Pub; ISBN: 1881847004; (December 1992); $16.95

--- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro wrote:
> Follow up here, please read:
> http://www.atiling.org
>
> --- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro wrote:
i picked up an "old friend" of mine
> > off the shelf "Ngondro Commentary: Instructions for the Concise
> > Preliminary Practices of the New Treasure of Dudjom" it is a book
> > compiled from the teachings of His Eminence Chugdud Tulku by Jane
> > Tromge. > > Guess it all means we will be "without" him for a few
years, people
> > who want to get aquainted with life story of this Precious Lama
can
> > get his autobiography titled "Lord of the Dance".
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 'I have not come nor gone. For those who have faith in me, I will
> > surely appear before them. On the tenth day of each lunar month,
I
> > will personally come to see my disciples.'
> > -Skt. Padmasambhava, Lit. the Lotus-born



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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 05:49:54 -0000
From: kyabdro
Subject: Revisiting Rinpoche sites

Started looking over sites of Rinpoche and recalled they had very
good online store. Here is the link,
http://www.tibetantreasures.com/ttintro.htm

Page on texts is just amazing, they got everything else too, 2 texts
mentioned by Jigme Tromge Rinpoche are available from this site.

Main site is here:
http://www.chagdud.org



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Body lying flat on a last bed,
Voices whispering a few last words,
Mind watching a final memory glide past:
When will that drama come for you?

7TH DALAI LAMA

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE in the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi

Is it not what we call life?


--- In tibetanbuddhistgroup@y..., kyabdro <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> Body lying flat on a last bed,
> Voices whispering a few last words,
> Mind watching a final memory glide past:
> When will that drama come for you?
>
> 7TH DALAI LAMA
>
> -SOGYAL RINPOCHE in the book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"
>
> Glimpses in your mail: http://www.rigpa.org/cgi-local/mojo.cgi

O love, O pure deep love, be here, be now
Be all; worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with you brighter than cold stars:
Make me your servant, your breath, your core.

RUMI

-SOGYAL RINPOCHE in the book the Book: "Glimpse After Glimpse"

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