Sogyal Rinpoche Quotes About Dying

• Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Dying, Done

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Mar 09, 2017

• Cuando por fin sabemos que estamos muriendo, y que todos los demás seres sensibles están muriendo con nosotros, empezamos a tener una sensación ardiente, casi desgarradora, de la fragilidad y preciosidad de cada momento y de cada ser, y de ahí puede surgir una compasión profunda, clara e ilimitada por todos los seres.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Spiritual, Encouragement

• No habría ninguna posibilidad de conocer la muerte si sólo ocurriera una vez. Pero, afortunadamente, la vida no es más que una danza continua de nacimiento y muerte, una danza de cambio. Cada vez que oigo el correr de un arroyo de montaña, o las olas rompiendo en la orilla, o los latidos de mi propio corazón, oigo el sonido de la impermanencia. Estos cambios, estas pequeñas muertes, son nuestros vínculos vivos con la muerte. Son las pulsaciones de la muerte, sus latidos, que nos incitan a desprendernos de todo aquello a lo que nos aferramos.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Letting Go, Dying

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jan 19, 2015

• Para la mayoría de nosotros, el karma y las emociones negativas oscurecen la capacidad de ver nuestra propia naturaleza intrínseca y la naturaleza de la realidad. Como resultado, nos aferramos a la felicidad y al sufrimiento como si fueran reales, y con nuestras acciones inhábiles e ignorantes seguimos sembrando las semillas de nuestro próximo nacimiento. Nuestras acciones nos mantienen atados al ciclo continuo de la existencia mundana, a la interminable ronda de nacimiento y muerte. Así que todo está en riesgo en cómo vivimos ahora, en este preciso momento: Cómo vivimos ahora puede costarnos todo nuestro futuro.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Karma, Real

• Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Compassion, Two

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Mar 16, 2017

• If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind. So it is vital for us all to familiarize ourselves with the nature of mind while we are still alive. Only then will we be prepared for the time when it reveals itself spontaneously and powerfully at the moment of death; be able to recognize it "as naturally," the teachings say, "as a child running into its mother's lap"; and by remaining in that state, finally be liberated.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Mother, Running

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Oct 27, 2014

• We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Character, Mind

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Aug 12, 2013

• 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.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Children, Eye

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

• Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever. We know, in Milarepa's words: "This thing called 'corpse' we dread so much is living with us here and now."

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Forever, Dying

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

• This is the real and urgent reason why we must prepare now to meet death wisely, to transform our karmic future, and to avoid the tragedy of falling into delusion again and again and repeating the painful round of birth and death. This life is the only time and place we can prepare in, and we can only truly prepare through spiritual practice: This is the inescapable message of the natural bardo of this life.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Spiritual, Real

• Encienda la televisión o eche un vistazo al periódico: Verá muerte por todas partes. Sin embargo, ¿esperaban morir las víctimas de esos accidentes aéreos y automovilísticos? Daban la vida por sentada, como hacemos nosotros. ¿Con qué frecuencia oímos historias de personas que conocemos, o incluso amigos, que murieron inesperadamente? Ni siquiera tenemos que estar enfermos para morir: Nuestros cuerpos pueden averiarse de repente y dejar de funcionar, igual que nuestros coches. Podemos estar bien un día, caer enfermos y morir al día siguiente.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Fall, Order

• At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Karma, Powerful

• At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Karma, Compassion

• Even if they don't know that you are practicing for them, you are helping them and in turn they are helping you. They are actively helping you to develop your compassion, and so to purify and heal yourself. For me, all dying people are teachers, giving to all those who help them a chance to transform themselves through developing their compassion.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Teacher, Compassion

• Recuerdo cómo la gente venía a menudo a ver a mi maestro Jamyang Khyentse simplemente para pedirle su guía para el momento de la muerte. Era tan querido y venerado en todo el Tíbet, especialmente en la provincia oriental de Kham, que algunos viajaban durante meses para encontrarse con él y obtener su bendición una sola vez antes de morir. Todos mis maestros me daban este consejo, porque ésta es la esencia de lo que se necesita cuando se está a punto de morir: "Libérate del apego y la aversión. Mantén tu mente pura. Y une tu mente con Buda".

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Blessing, Attachment

• La muerte es como un espejo en el que se refleja el verdadero sentido de la vida.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Death, Mirrors, Dying

• This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.

  Sogyal Rimpoché

  Love Is, Compassion, Dying

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