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“...When somebody provokes your anger, the only reason you get angry
is because you’re holding on to how you think something is supposed to be.
You’re denying how it is.
Then you see it’s the expectations of your own mind
that are creating your own hell.
When you get frustrated because something isn’t the way you thought it would be
examine the way you thought, not just the thing that frustrates you.
You’ll see that a lot of your emotional suffering is created
by your models of how you think the universe should be :smile:
and your inability to allow it to be as it is.”
~Ram Dass

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Two ways to meditate ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
https://justdharma.com/s/pe98t
When we speak of the “mind,” it is important to know
whether we are talking about the ordinary mind, referring to the innumerable chains of thoughts
that create and maintain our state of delusion
or, as here, about the nature of mind at the source of all those thoughts
—the clear, void state of awareness completely free of delusion.

To illustrate this distinction, Lord Buddha taught that
there are two ways to meditate
— like a dog and like a lion.
If you throw a stick at a dog, he will chase after the stick
but if you throw a stick at a lion, the lion will chase after you.:smile:

You can throw as many sticks as you like at a dog, but at a lion only one.

When you are completely barraged with thoughts
chasing after each one in turn with its antidote is an endless task.
That is like the dog.
It is better, like the lion, to look for the source of those thoughts.
– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book "The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones"
ISBN: 978-0877734932


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Transient precious human body ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
 https://justdharma.com/s/skanl
This precious human body, supreme instrument though it is
for the attainment of enlightenment
is itself a transient phenomenon :smile:
No one knows when, or how, death will come.
Bubbles form on the surface of the water
but the next instant they are gone; they do not stay.
It is just the same with this precious human body that we have managed to find.
We take all the time in the world before engaging in spiritual practice
but who knows when this life of ours will simply cease to be?
And once our precious human body is lost
our mind stream, continuing its existence, will take birth
perhaps among the animals, or in one of the hells or god realms
where spiritual development is impossible.
– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book "Enlightened Courage:
An Explanation of the Seven-Point Mind Training"
ISBN: 978-1559392532 -
translated by Padmakara Translation Group


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