In parting, I would like to give you one small piece of advice to keep in your heart. You may have heard me say this before, but it is the key point of the entire path, so it bears repeating: All that we are looking for in life — all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind — is right here in the present moment. Our very own awareness is itself fundamentally pure and good. The only problem is that we get so caught up in the ups and downs of life that we don’t take the time to pause and notice what we already have.

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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• Nothing endures but change
• Only with recognition
• Ego-grasping death comes before life
• Spacious awareness
• Accepting whatever happens
• Beyond habitual patterns
• Awareness contains impermanence
• Facing suffering
• It’s how we relate to emotions
• Stay with what is
• The source of what we like or do not like
• Change yourself
• Meditative awareness
• Within each one of us
• Stretching a bit further
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