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The notion of permanence is the thief that steals The notion of permanence is the thief that steals the open door to awareness. We can't find the door because we are believing we should devote our life to a notion of who we are, how we are and staying with that

- James Low
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Don't predict. Don't assume. You have to stay prec Don't predict. Don't assume. You have to stay precisely there. Don't fill the space with knowing 

- James Low
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When we fuse into the con we become confused. The When we fuse into the con we become confused. The skill of any cult is to not know you are in one
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Don't thicken what you see with your associations Don't thicken what you see with your associations

- James Low 
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Dzogchen is not a path of concepts - James Low # Dzogchen is not a path of concepts

- James Low 
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Everything you need is here - James Low #meditati Everything you need is here

- James Low
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No pattern is the truth of who you are. That is wh No pattern is the truth of who you are. That is why in Dzogchen we talk alot of potential. Just as a mirror has the potential to show millions of kinds of images because it is not foreclosed. Whereas a painting just shows itself, because the painting is full of painting. So in our ego-self we are like the painting. We are repeating this particular image formation. When we stay open new things happen. Then we find we are not who we think we are. We are revealed to ourselves but never definitively. And so that is our freedom. I can't catch me, you can't catch me, because I am not a thing. But here I am. This is true for all of us. This is our freedom to coemerge

- James Low
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One of the functions of meditation is to move towa One of the functions of meditation is to move towards the strange. To allow ourselves to be with what we don't understand. So we have chance to relax out of our habitual framework of conceptual clarity and start to see another kind of clarity, the clarity of presence 

- James Low
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Ignorance is to not realise you are in the womb - Ignorance is to not realise you are in the womb

- James Low
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What do you want? 'Remember that sometimes not ge What do you want?

'Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck'

– Dalai Lama
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So you start to see I get lost because getting los So you start to see I get lost because getting lost is the egos business. The ego lives in lostness the way the fish lives in the sea. When the ego comes into the sky of awareness it dissolves like mist 

- James Low
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We think we are swept away by thoughts, feelings a We think we are swept away by thoughts, feelings and memories. We think we are. This is just thoughts about thoughts. We have gone nowhere. We are simply here. Relax
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Since there is no self, there is also no other - Since there is no self, there is also no other

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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In the manner of a dream #meditation #mindfulness In the manner of a dream
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We should also avoid thinking of ourselves as wort We should also avoid thinking of ourselves as worthless persons – we are naturally free and unconditioned. We are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing. When engaging in meditation practice, we should feel it to be as natural as eating, breathing and defecating. It should not become a specialized or formal event, bloated with seriousness and solemnity

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche 
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You can only jump through a hoop because it is emp You can only jump through a hoop because it is empty
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The good the bad and the ugly (and the beautiful). The good the bad and the ugly (and the beautiful). According to who? Relax
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The only true error and obscuration in the mind is The only true error and obscuration in the mind is to imagine there is an owner of the territory. It's my mind, these are my thoughts, my feelings 

- James Low
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The real truth is emptiness and everything else is The real truth is emptiness and everything else is the children of emptiness 

- James Low
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I got more things wrong than I care to remember. I I got more things wrong than I care to remember. Isn't it wonderful. Isn't it funny. Now its time to relax
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