During my first three-year retreat, I had the good fortune to study with a great master, Saljay Rinpoche. In the middle of the third year, I and a few of my fellow retreatants approached RInpoche to ask his advice. We had derived tremendous benefit from the retreat and asked him how we could help uphold this precious lineage. Practice! He told us.

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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• 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
• The chattering voice in our heads
• Great news
• Replace longing with love
• Within each one of us
• Boundless reality
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