Sogyal Rinpoche
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"Sogyal Rinpoche" is a Tibetan Dzogchen lama of the Nyingma tradition. He has been teaching for over 30 years and continues to travel widely in Europe, United States/America, Australia and Asia. He is also the founder and spiritual director of Rigpa organization/Rigpa—an international network of over 100 Buddhism/Buddhist centres and groups in 23 countries around the world—and the author of the best-selling book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, which has been printed in 30 languages and 56 countries. He is known for his ability to present his understanding of Tibetan Buddhism using the language of contemporary Western thought.

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[In] The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, ... The future is in our hands, and in the hands of our heart.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.