There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it. - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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True love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and years of commitment and being together and hanging in there building a history? And how do you find both?

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

There's no difference between what is seen and the mind that sees it.

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The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter.

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The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation.

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Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.

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Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

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When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

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