If you follow any thought or emotion, major or minor, and let your mind wander outward, your work is in error and you’re no different from an ordinary person. Turn your emotion right in and look right at your mind. When you look at it, nothing is seen. Relax completely, let everything go, and rest in that state of emptiness.

Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

from the book The Great Path of Awakening

translated by Ken McLeod


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