Advice for the Moment of Death

In May 2004, on the occasion of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s historic four days of teachings in Glasgow, Scotland, to which over 9,000 people attended, Sogyal Rinpoche gave an inspired public talk entitled “Living and Dying Today”. In this extract from that talk, Sogyal Rinpoche comments on the advice for the moment of death […]

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Of Life, Laughter and Death

Here is the opening of a Sky News (UK) feature on Sogyal Rinpoche following the publication of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in 1992.

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“The Book Loved Me Completely”

‘When you really realize the teachings in a profound way, you realize the teachings are all about love.” Murnau, Germany, June 3, 2010.

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Holding without Attachment

“Taking impermanence truly to heart is to be slowly freed from the idea of grasping, from our flawed and destructive view of permanence, from the false passion for security on which we have built everything. Slowly it dawns on us that all the heartache we have been through from grasping at the ungraspable was, in […]

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Living up to Death

Following the publication of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying in 1992, Sogyal Rinpoche gave a series of inspiring and lively public talks as part of an international book tour. Here is a rare clip from one of these public talks, which also features an introduction by English actor and comedian John Cleese, star […]

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