When Things Go Badly
Premeditated Ignorance is the quality or condition of deliberate unawareness. It is when people do not know because they do not want to know.
— Faye Armitage
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You will not know the extent of your realization when things go well.
— Khenpo Münsel Rinpoche
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One must not avoid unhappiness. One must accept suffering; it is a great teacher.
Organic happiness, the bliss that comes from the center of the earth, that alone is fruitful and that simply comes.
Sometimes it [happiness] surges from the deepest suffering.
~ Jung,
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When you find yourself in a troublesome situation, when you are in great pain, when an intense emotion arises, only then will you know where you are at with practice.
Adverse circumstances will reveal your hidden faults. If you are able to hold awareness unwaveringly during such a time, and thus if you are not carried away by the force of the emotion, it is a sign that you have gained experience in practice.
~Garchen Rinpoche.
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