✨ Clear seeing is liberation ✨
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✨ The sign of true practice is effortless freedom from fixation ✨
🪷 Numinous wisdom from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) 🪷
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) 🪷
✨ The true sign of practice is that you are naturally and effortlessly without fixation. Also, that you are endowed with devotion, compassion and pure perception, just like the sky is filled with the warmth of sunlight. — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (1920–1996) ✨
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✨ Awareness and teacher become one ✨
🪷 Sublime wisdom from Yeshe Tsogyal (fl. c. 8th century CE) 🪷
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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Yeshe Tsogyal (fl. c. 8th century CE) 🪷
✨ Meditate upon the teacher as the glow of your awareness, When you melt and mingle together, Taste that expanse of non-duality. There remain. — Yeshe Tsogyal (fl. c. 8th century CE) ✨
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Lathe biōsas
Epicurus promoted an innovative theory of justice as a social contract. Justice, Epicurus said, is an agreement neither to harm nor be harmed, and we need to have such a contract in order to enjoy fully the benefits of living together in a well-ordered society. Laws and punishments are needed to keep misguided fools in line who would otherwise break the contract. But the wise person sees the usefulness of justice, and because of his limited desires, he has no need to engage in the conduct prohibited by the laws in any case. Laws that are useful for promoting happiness are just, but those that are not useful are not just…
Epicurus discouraged participation in politics, as doing so leads to perturbation and status seeking. He instead advocated not drawing attention to oneself. This principle is epitomised by the phrase lathe biōsas (λάθε βιώσας), meaning “live in obscurity”, “get through life without drawing attention to yourself”, i.e., live without pursuing glory or wealth or power, but anonymously, enjoying little things like food, the company of friends, etc.
I have written here before about the benefits of living a quiet life. I am not necessarily prescribing this as a universal panacea, of course, but I am saying that it is necessary to me. I have come to realise increasingly clearly that Epicurus’ “live in obscurity” is exactly the dictum for me. The tiny daily accidents of life, the passing sounds and impressions observed during practice and after, are infinitely precious and worth attention. Birdsong, the particular exhaust note of a motorcycle on the road at the end of the garden, the half-unconscious inflection in one’s partner’s voice – all of them perfect just as they are in their crystalline presence. Things like this are simply not accessible to one who is on a mission, busy making a name for themselves.
Silence and stillness are quite different from “perturbation and status seeking”; which goes a long way to explain my own reluctance to engage with social media, with activism and campaigning, with banging and shouting in all their increasingly prevalent forms. However good the cause, anger seems only to beget anger, and violence, violence. Unkindness of whatever sort is never the way to an increase in kindness.
For myself, there is no other way than to keep still, to remain alert to the smallest things: to the leaves and the snails, to the minute changes in the weather, the slight ticking you hear as the thermostat balances the warmth of the room. Practice is no more than a way to awareness itself, to the limitless ground. Be quiet. Be still. Nothing else will do.
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Sam Harris explores consciousness, awareness, and the Dzogchen teachings he received from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche. Sam reflects on meeting this extraordinary teacher, and the challenges of dualistic mindfulness.
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