The less we know about the chattering, muttering voice in our heads that tell us what to do, what to believe, what to buy, which people we should love, and so forth, the more power we grant it to boss us around and convince us that whatever it says is true.

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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• Anywhere, anytime
• Vast and intimate
• Stay with what is
• Nothing endures but change
• The masks that hide our true selves
• Short moments, many times
• Ego-grasping death comes before life
• Only with recognition
• Upholding the lineage
• Accepting whatever happens
• Spacious awareness
• Change yourself
• Awareness contains impermanence
• Beyond habitual patterns
• Identifying the sickness for ourselves
• It’s how we relate to emotions
• Reverse activity
• The source of what we like or do not like
• Facing suffering
• Meditative awareness