The Country They Call Life

Painting by J. M. W. Turner

Just understand your mind: how it works, how attachment and desire arise, how ignorance arises, where emotions come from. It is sufficient to know the nature of all that; just that gives so much happiness and peace.

— Lama Thubten Yeshe

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“Compassion goes with great intelligence. That intelligence is not the operation of knowledge. Knowledge can solve many problems…