Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Each step may seem to take forever, but no matter how uninspired you feel, continue to follow your practice schedule precisely and consistently. This is how we can use our greatest enemy, habit, against itself.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

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Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied. We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations. But by meditating-by not doing anything- all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

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An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

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Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

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Renunciation mind has nothing to do with sacrificing. When we talk about renunciation, somwhow we get all scared because we think that we have to give up some goodies, somehing valuable, some important things. But there is nothing that is important; there is nothing that is solidly exisiting. All that you are give up is actually a vague identity . You realize thigs is not true; it's noe the ultimate. This how and why to develop renunciation
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

#Giving Up #Sacrifice #Thinking
As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

#Practice #Long
Don't even think for a moment that you are not going to die.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

#Thinking #Moments
Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.
-- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

#Past #Retreat #Ultimate

According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice.
I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, Iâ€™m humbled that you chose me.
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
Destroy your enemy by making him your friend.
The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own position.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche famous quotes

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