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“keep your thirst before you; for it can give you a source of light, guiding you to the place where life is most richly to be found.”
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“There is nothing inherently wrong with the thinking mind: rational analysis to solve problems is what is needed in many situations. But when we are sad or upset, and then begin to analyse and judge ourselves, thoughts can easily become an avalanche of self-blame and despair, in which the mind goes round and round, getting more and more upset.”
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“The insight that the Buddha discovered is so simple, and yet so difficult to accept. His teachings introduce us to a dormant, hidden, unrealized part of ourselves. This is the great paradox of the Buddhist path: that we practice in order to know what we already are, therefore attaining nothing, getting nothing, going nowhere. We seek to uncover what has always been there.”
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“my father had always told me: When you’re on a journey and you come to a wall, always throw your pack over first, because then you will be sure to follow.”
Nota: quemar los barcos.
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“The Tibetan word for meditation, gom, means “to become familiar with”
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“Adding wood to the fire deliberately brings difficult situations to the forefront so that we can work with them directly. We take the very behaviors or circumstances that we think of as problems and turn them into allies.”
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“We begin to rely on another aspect of mind that exists beneath our reactivity. We call this “no-self.” It’s the unconditioned awareness that reveals itself with the dissolution of the chattering mind that talks to itself throughout the day. Another way of saying this is that we switch mental gears from normal awareness to meditative awareness.”
