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Discovering Silence and The Inner Guru
Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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A teacher of dzogchen never ask you to accept or change something. A teacher of dzogchen only asks that you observe yourself, so you can discover your real nature. If you discover your real nature, that is good for you, not for your teacher. The teacher tries to make you understand. That is really the teaching.
— Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche
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Many people are confused about emptiness, but it is not such a difficult subject when seen from the point of view of figure and ground. Emptiness is the ground, and interdependent manifestation, samsara, is the figure imposed on the ground. In this way, emptiness becomes the reason why anything is possible. It is the ground or space on which anything might be created, and is created: it makes the existence of samsara possible, and the attainment of enlightenment possible. The improvement of sentient beings is possible because of emptiness…
~Tai Situ Rinpoche, “Awakening the Sleeping Buddha”
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