Empty minds, empty bodies, empty emotions, but not nothingness. The waves that surface in the form of emotions, desires, and aversions are also empty, and their force is also empty. Yet the empty force of the empty wave has the empty power to knock over a mind that is also essentially empty but does not know it, and is stuffed with ideas. But if we do not create a story around the wave, then we have empty water dissolving into the empty ocean, like water being poured into water. No problem. Emotions themselves are not the problem. It’s how we relate to them.
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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- Spacious awareness
- Change yourself
- Awareness contains impermanence
- Beyond habitual patterns
- Identifying the sickness for ourselves
- Reverse activity
- The source of what we like or do not like
- Facing suffering
- Meditative awareness
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- Within each one of us
- Boundless reality
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