When we are not constricted by habitual patterns that define how we see ourselves and how we behave in the world, we create access to those qualities of mind that are vast, that are not contingent on circumstances or concepts, and that are always present.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

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• Change yourself
• Upholding the lineage
• Anywhere, anytime
• Stay with what is
• Meditative awareness
• Fundamentally pure and good
• Replace longing with love
• The masks that hide our true selves
• The chattering voice in our heads
• Only with recognition
• Dying is rebirth
• Ego-grasping death comes before life
• Spacious awareness
• Identifying the sickness for ourselves
• Stretching a bit further
• Facing suffering
• Short moments, many times
• Awareness contains impermanence