Ignorance is a fundamental inability to recognize the infinite potential, clarity, and power of our own minds, as if we were looking at the world through colored glasses: Whatever we see is disguised or distorted by the colors of the glass. On the most essential level, ignorance distorts the basically open experience of awareness into dualistic distinctions between inherently existing categories of “self” and “other”.
Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
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- Your mind just as it is
- What Buddhists mean by happiness
- Thinking of yourself as limited
- The best part of all
- Oh, this is how my mind works
- Neither rejecting nor accepting
- Importance of the motivation
- Recognizing the inherent potential of your mind
- The practice of simply observing
- Just observe it
- Nothing more than the natural function of the mind
- Trying to do your best
- Meditation on compassion
- Setting the tone for your entire day
- Being diligent
- Essentially good
- An experience of absolute well-being
- The need to look at the mind
- Never disturbed
- Becoming aware