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Our normal way of relating people is to see ourself as separate from the others.To objectify beings as separate you and make them an object of attachment is...

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Do not fight against pain; do not fight against irritation or jealousy. Embrace them with great tenderness, as though you were embracing a little baby. Your anger is yourself, and you should not be violent toward it. The same thing goes for all your emotions.

.._TNH..

An Eternal Now SG

The appropriating consciousness, profound and subtle,
Like a violent current, flows with all the seeds;
I have not taught it to the ignorant,
Lest they should imagine it as a self.24
(Saddhinirmocana Sjtra, V. 7)

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ALTRUISM AND INNER PEACE We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives in which we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. Nor is it so remarkable that our greatest joy should come when we are motivated by concern for others. But that is not all. We find that not only do altruistic actions bring about happiness, but they also lessen our experience of suffering. Here I am not suggesting that the individual whose actions are motivated by the wish to bring others happiness necessarily meets with less misfortune than the one who does not. Sickness, old age, mishaps of one sort or another are the same for us all. But the sufferings which undermine our internal peace—anxiety, doubt, disappointment—these are definitely less.

His holiness dalai lama

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“…we should see that every event, every thing in this entire world is a time.”
Shobogenzo, Uji, Hee-Jin Kim, Flowers of Emptiness, p.224-225

The self arrays itself and sees itself in array. This is the principle of the self being time.

We should learn that, because of this principle, myriad phenomena and countless things exist throughout the entire earth, and that each and every particularity, be it of a thing or of phenomenon, exists as the entire earth. Such a consideration is the beginning of training…

Because there is no other time than this very moment, “existence-time” is always entire time.
Shobogenzo, Uji, Hee-Jin Kim, Flowers of Emptiness, p.225

Courtneyharris788 SG

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Dogen wrote:

In ancient times Old One Sakyamuni under the bodhi tree, on seeing the bright star, at once realized the truth. The principle here is the principle that not a single thing is fetched. Previously the Buddha had experienced the bright star, but from this time on the bright star was experiencing the Buddha. What is the basis [for saying that] he was experienced by the bright star and that he experienced the bright star? Namely, “Practice and experience is not nonexistent [but] it cannot be tainted.”
Himitsu-shobogenzo, Butsu-kojo-no-ji, Gudo Nishijima and Mike Cross

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In order to illuminate and study that boat, we need to know what the Buddha-Dharma is. “The Buddha-Dharma,” namely, is the myriad dharmas, the hundred weeds, all real dharmas, the triple world. No buddha has failed to perfectly realize this, and so there is nothing that is not perfectly realized as this by
buddhas. That being so, when we inquire into life, there is none beyond real dharmas, and when we look for death, it is never separate from the myriad dharmas.
Himitsu-shobogenzo, Butsu-kojo-no-ji, Gudo Nishijima and Mike Cross

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There are four kinds of people who study. The highest are those with practice, with understanding, and with realization. Next are those with understanding, and with realization but without practice. Next are those with practice and understanding but without realization. Lowest are those with practice, but without understanding or realization.
Zen Dawn, J.C. Cleary

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"The wonder of it! This marvelous, astounding event/reality (Dharma):
From that which involves no origination, everything originates;
and in that very origination, there is no origination!
The wonder of it!
In it's very enduring, there is no enduring!
The wonder of it!
In it's very cessation, there is no cessation!"
- Guhyagarbha Tantra

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“In the natural condition, the supreme space
which does not fall into the limits
of measurement or even the concept of direction,
Whatever presents itself there,
I enjoy as an ornament.
I don’t make any effort
to create or reject anything.
You who take up preferences,
Do as you please.
Directly in the space of the dimension
Of original purity,
I meet all meditative experiences,
manifestations of energy, and visions
in a state of equanimity.
With no need to desire
artificial religious practice, I am happy.
You who dwell on mental constructions,
Do as you please.”

- Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

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Permanence means the steadfast quality of the Buddha-nature which exerts itself totally and drops itself off completely in each and every situation. In this respect, the impermanent is permanent, the permanent is impermanent.
Hee-Jin Kim, Flowers of Emptiness, p.91

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The true face of our pristine nature
Manifests unreservedly and miraculously,
As the transience that arises and subsides.
Thoroughly real, discrete and complete,
Arises but not arising from,
Subsides but not subsiding to,
Completely free from the erroneous view of a who, where and when,
Fully unsupported, unfindable and essence-less
Luminous yet empty,
This alone is liberation!

~ Thusness (200 Cool

Rpauljake SG

I believe that all problems are Illusions of the mind. So to spare from strife. I always carry my kechara protection chakras with me.

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The experience comes when the 'self' subsides and awareness is experienced as a vibrantly luminous bright clarity. The radiance of pure awareness creates a powerful sense of Presence that is experienced in the form of aliveness and clarity in all parts of the body. If you were to visualize it, it is like a very power inner light radiating out from nowhere to everywhere making everything that comes into contact alive.

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It is clear that the basic is sufficient. Only right experience and insight are necessary. ~ Thusness (2007)

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The key is in "Empty" so that there is complete non abiding and staying and "luminosity" so that there is aliveness and clarity without falling into nihilism. ~ Thusness (2008)

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[At Saavatthii the Blessed One said:] "Monks, there are these five groups of clinging. What five? The body-group of clinging, the feeling-group, the perception-group, the mental-formation-group, the consciousness-group of clinging.

"And when, monks, the Ariyan disciple understands as they really are the arising and the passing away, the attractiveness and the danger, and the deliverance from the five groups of clinging, he is called an Ariyan disciple who is a Stream-winner, not liable to states of woe,[1] assured of final enlightenment."

Metta with Mindfulness SG

To stay with that shakiness – to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge – that is the path to true awakening.Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic – This is the spiritual Path

Pema Chodron (Stay with your broken heart)

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Allow the muddy waters of mental activity to clear;
Refrain from both positive and negative projection -
leave appearances alone:
The phenomenal world, without addition or subtraction, is Mahamudra/liberation.

-Tilopa

Scott Kiloby: If you see that awareness is none other than everything, and that none of those things are separate "things"

at all, why even use the word awareness anymore? All you are left with is the world, your life, the diversity of experience itself.

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