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Don't piss on your food and then complain it taste

Don't piss on your food and then complain it tastes of piss

- James Low
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Moment by moment things are vanishing and leaving

Moment by moment things are vanishing and leaving us emptied. This is the real dharma door that is available. But we feel that I have a lack, something is missing in me, I want to be completed, so I want to find good things to add to me. I need more clutter. Only if I am fully cluttered, fully filled up, totally constipated will I have solid sense of my existence. So we go to different meditation groups, we read different kind of books, we go on different courses, we do more and more things and have more clutter. And what does that clutter bring us. Just more clutter. Because clutter feeds clutter. Clutter brings dust. Because you want to protect the clutter from the dust but clutter is just another kind of dust. All the stuff in our heads that we know about this and that, all our various hobbies and interests are empty. Because from the very beginning everything has been empty there is nothing that can fill it at all. That's amazing

- James Low
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Its not about having dharma. You probably have man

Its not about having dharma. You probably have many dharma books or tapes on dharma, photos and altars, all kinds of dharma things but where is the dharma in you? How do you get dharma to be inside you? How do you get dharma to be the basis of how you function, not after the fact by thinking about what happened in terms of dharma but being present in the moment of your experience with the illumination of the event as dharma? This is what we want because this is how it is from the beginning. Dharma simply means how it is. Non dharma means how its not but how we imagined it to be

- James Low
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Perfectly meaningless Relax #mindfulness #medita

Perfectly meaningless

Relax
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Life, itself, in its dynamic immediacy is entombed

Life, itself, in its dynamic immediacy is entombed in a coffin of thoughts and memories about life

- James Low
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As many teachers have said you can't think your wa

As many teachers have said you can't think your way out of samsara. It's not a conceptual problem to be solved. In fact it is our reliance on concepts that increases the problematic structure we find ourselves in

- James Low
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Suchness is life Relax #mindfulness #meditation #

Suchness is life

Relax
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The power of the arbitrariness of concepts is how

The power of the arbitrariness of concepts is how illusion works. A scarecrow creates the illusion of a human being, and that illusion often does a good job of keeping crows at bay. Taking a medicinal placebo can be such a potent illusion for some patients that their illness is cured. And the illusion of democracy leads many people to believe that freedom and fairness exist in this world. This is how fundamentally illogical human beings function

- Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
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Normal is the fascism of the masses #mindfulness #

Normal is the fascism of the masses
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I tell you what I love; I love a good old fashione

I tell you what I love; I love a good old fashioned cult. They are so quirky and entertaining with all their rules, their do's and don't, their rights and wrongs, their funny little outfits and best of all their leaders with their "I am really intelligent and important" blah, blah, blah. If I had to pick my favourite it would be easy. I love the cult of capitalism. Those guys don't f@#k about. They really go for it and they are so popular. Wow sign me up baby
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We are not going from the outside in, it is the il

We are not going from the outside in, it is the illusion of being on the outside that causes all the problems

- James Low
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Our goal is not to improve the content of our mind

Our goal is not to improve the content of our mind but rather to be open and present with however our mind is

- James Low
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You could always stop practicing anxiety. If you w

You could always stop practicing anxiety. If you wanted. Especially if you are very good at it...
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When presence is impersonal there are many movemen

When presence is impersonal there are many movements, many appearances are occurring but we are indifferent. This is the wisdom side of stupidity. Why would I get involved, there is no need. So this is very, very peaceful. Turmoil is going on but it has nothing to do with me. When we have a personal presence, presence with our personality, our likes and dislikes that easily moves us towards involvement but an impersonal presence is just open. Whatever comes comes. It doesn't matter. It is the indifference of equanimity. Not the indifference of being shut down or shut off. We are present but there is no consequence for awareness in the quality of what is arising

- James Low
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Whatever is occurring doesn't need your story - J

Whatever is occurring doesn't need your story

- James Low
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If you don't know what you are supposed to do just

If you don't know what you are supposed to do just watch. You simply watch what is going on

- Alan Watts
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Worry is preposterous; we don't know enough to wor

Worry is preposterous; we don't know enough to worry

- Terence Mckenna
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Relax #meditation

Relax
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Emptiness is the one great medicine that cures the

Emptiness is the one great medicine that cures the sorrow of all beings. The mind inseparable from emptiness is the union of wisdom and compassion. This is the infinite opening in our heart which is the source of all light and love that we send all beings. It is also the space which can accept and dissolve all the difficulties and sufferings of all beings

- James Low
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Get out of the construction business. Stop buildin

Get out of the construction business. Stop building bridges across the raging waters of samsaric existence, attempting to reach the 'far shore,' nirvana. Better to simply relax, at ease and carefree, in total naturalness, and just go with the primordial flow, however it occurs and happens. And remember this: whether or not you go with the flow, it always goes with you

- Nyoshul Khenpo
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