We might say that meditation is all about being aware of our thoughts rather than being sucked up in them, but what we can't say is that the goal of meditation is ‘to be aware of our thoughts without getting...
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When we can see past our goals then our goals are serving us – they are helping us in a practical way in this case. When we can't see through our goals however then this changes everything; when the goal...
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We can either be driven by the need to turn a profit (which is to say, by ‘the need to obtain the advantageous outcome’) or we can be conscious. We can't be both - it's always got to be either...
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Everything is perfect in being what it already is, and it does so without the least bit of effort or straining, without the least bit of impediment from anything. Everything is perfect at being what it already is (as Longchenpa...
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When we are in the mechanical mode then everything proceeds from pressure, everything happens as a result of pressure. No other factor comes into it. Pressure means that everything happens as a result of pure, unnegotiable necessity, and yet the...
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When we straightaway believe what we think, or act on what we think, then we create the determinate reality which is the projection of what we think. When we always believe in what we think, or always translate our thoughts...
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When we live our lives on the basis of thought then we are always going to be ‘looping back on ourselves’, which is to say, ‘thinking that we're ‘getting somewhere when we aren't’. This is inevitably going to be the...
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Suppose that there was just space and nothing else: in this scenario there is nothing but space and space is perfectly open, perfectly unobstructed, perfectly luminous. This is ‘the open situation' – the situation of not being limited in any...
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