Sogyal Rinpoche: The Personal Path

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Sogyal Rinpoche's Rigpa Glimpse of the Day:

The teachings tell us what it is we need to realize, but we also have to go on our own journey, in order to come to a personal realization. That journey may take us through suffering, difficulties, and doubts of all kinds, but they will become our greatest teachers. Through them we will learn the humility to recognize our limitations, and through them we will discover the inner strength and fearlessness we need to emerge from our old habits and set patterns, and surrender into the vaster vision of real freedom offered by the spiritual teachings.

This is the true path as far as I am concerned. We may have guidelines, or mile markers, along the way, but the journey is one we take within ourselves. As we confront shadow stuff, we befriend these parts of ourselves and learn the lessons they can teach us. It is a never-ending process of purification.


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