It can be very difficult to accept that the source of what we like or do not like arises in our mind. When we get our heads stuck in the clouds – pretty clouds, ugly clouds – we cannot see that they are impermanent, that they have a life of their own, and that they will pass on, if we let them.
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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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- Upholding the lineage
- Anywhere, anytime
- Stay with what is
- Meditative awareness
- Beyond habitual patterns
- Fundamentally pure and good
- Replace longing with love
- The masks that hide our true selves
- The chattering voice in our heads
- Only with recognition
- Dying is rebirth
- Ego-grasping death comes before life
- Spacious awareness
- Identifying the sickness for ourselves
- Stretching a bit further
- Facing suffering
- Short moments, many times
- Awareness contains impermanence
- Reverse activity