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Tsoknyi Rinpoche QUOTES

Tsoknyi Rinpoche QUOTES

1 " Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

2 " The point is to be free, not to be crazy. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche

3 " Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

4 " True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

5 " You don't have to say anything.
You don't have to teach anything.
You just have to be who you are:
a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair,
a shining example of a person able to cross bridges
by opening your heart and mind. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

6 " The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World

7 " You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

8 " Every time you connect, a little bit more clarity stays around the love, a little bit more space opens up around it. your mind becomes clearer. you experience expanded possibilities. You become a little more confident, a little more willing to connect with others, a little more willing to open up to other people, whether that means talking about your own stuff or listen to theirs. And as that happens a little miracle occurs: You're giving, without expectation in return. Your very being becomes, consciously or not, an inspiration to others "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

9 " True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any & all thought states. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche

10 " We fail to see that recognizing, admitting, and clearly understanding the patterns we experience in our own lives can have a transformative effect on the way we function in the world and the way we relate to others. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

11 " Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

12 " This unconditional wakefulness is described in the Sanskrit term bodhicitta, "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

13 " A human being is a part of a whole called by us the universe. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

14 " gewa significa hacer elecciones que aumenten nuestra fuerza emocional e intelectual, que iluminen nuestra potencial grandeza, que construyan nuestra confianza y que refuercen nuestra habilidad para ayudar a aquellos que lo necesiten. "

― Tsoknyi Rinpoche , Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation