Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation
Interpretation
This quote suggests that all experiences can serve as opportunities for reflection and mindfulness.
Sogyal Rinpoche's quote emphasizes that every moment and experience in life has the potential to be a catalyst for meditation. By viewing everything through a lens of awareness, we can transform our daily encounters into moments of introspection and deeper understanding, fostering a greater sense of presence and mindfulness in our lives.
In practice
In a talk about finding peace in everyday life, you can quote 'Everything can be used as an invitation to meditation.'
Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and 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.
There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change. Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat, I hear the sound of impermanence. These changes, these small deaths, are our living links with death. They are death's pulses, death's heartbeat, prompting us to let go of all the things we cling to.
{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.
We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can say about it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this uncertainty about the hour of our death, which we seize on as the excuse to postpone facing death directly. We are like children who cover their eyes in a game of hide and seek and think that no one can see them.
One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.
Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why AllΔh is with the broken hearted.
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
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