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When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.

Betty Smith

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And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.

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And in the all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of reality.
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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.

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What should we “do” with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is.
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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.

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We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.
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What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

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There is no armor like perseverance.
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There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn.

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