Longchenpa quotes
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“Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.”
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“Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.”
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“We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.”
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“In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter”
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“Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.”
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“To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.”
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“Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.”
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“Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.”
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“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
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“I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.”
Source : Interview by Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
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