Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, … - Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

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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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