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you [Music] Bob Chen practice in everyday life by His Holiness dilgo can say remotion the everyday practice absorption
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is simply to develop a complete carefree acceptance and openness to all situations without limit
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[Music] we should realize um penis as the playground of our emotions and relate to people with our other facility
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manipulation or strategy we should experience everything totally and never withdrawing into ourselves as a mom it hides in its hole this practice
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releases tremendous energy which is usually constricted by the process of maintaining fixed reference points referentiality is the process by which
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we retreat from the direct experience of everyday life being present in the moment may initially trigger fear
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but by welcoming the sensation of fear with complete openness we cut through the barriers created by habitual emotional patterns
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when we engage in the practice of discovering space we should develop the feeling of opening ourselves out completely to the entire universe
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[Music] we should open ourselves with absolute simplicity and nakedness of mine this is the powerful an ordinary practice of dropping the mask of
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self-protection we shouldn't make a division in our meditation between perception and field of perception we shouldn't become like a
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cat watching a mouse we should realize that the purpose of meditation is not to go deeply into ourselves or withdraw
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from the world practice should be free and non-conceptual unconstrained by introspection and concentration vast unoriginal self-luminous wisdom
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space is the ground of being the beginning and the end of confusion the presence of awareness in the
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primordial state has no bias towards enlightenment or non enlightenment this ground of being which is known as pure or original mind
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is the source from which all phenomena arise it is known as the great mother as the womb of potentiality in which all things
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arise and dissolve in natural self perfectness an absolute spontaneity all aspects of phenomena are completely
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clear and lucid the whole universe is open and unobstructed everything is mutually interpenetrating
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seeing all things as naked clear and free from obscurations there is nothing to attain or realize
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the nature of phenomena appears naturally and is naturally present in time transcending awareness everything is naturally perfect just as
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it is [Music] all phenomena appear in their uniqueness as part of the continually changing pattern these patterns are vibrant with meaning
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and significance at every moment yet there is no significance to attach to such meanings beyond the moment in which
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they present themselves this is the dance of the five elements in which matter is a symbol of energy an
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energy a symbol of emptiness we are a symbol of our own enlightenment with no effort or practice whatsoever liberation or enlightenment
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is already here the everyday practice of zob chair it's just everyday life itself since the undeveloped state does not exist
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there is no need to behave in any special way or attempt to attain anything above and beyond what you actually are
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[Music] there should be no feeling of striving to reach some amazing goal or advanced state to strive for such a state is a neurosis
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which only conditions us and serves to obstruct the free flow of mind we should also avoid thinking of ourselves as worthless persons
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we are naturally free and unconditioned we are intrinsically enlightened and lack nothing when engaging in meditation practice we should feel it to be as natural as
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eating breathing and defecating it should not become a specialized or formal event bloated with seriousness and solemnity
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we should realize that meditation transcends effort practice aims goals and the duality of liberation and non
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liberation meditation is always ideal there is no need to correct anything since
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everything that arises is simply the play of mind as such there is no unsatisfactory meditation and no need to
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judge thoughts as good or bad therefore we should simply sit simply stay in your own place in your own condition just as it is
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forgetting self-conscious feelings we do not have to think I am meditating our practice should be without effort without strain without attempts to
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control or force and without trying to become peaceful [Music] if we find that we are disturbing ourselves in any of these ways we
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stopped meditating and simply rest or relaxed for a while then we resume our meditation if we have interesting experiences
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either during or after meditation we should avoid making anything special of them to spend time thinking about experiences
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is simply a distraction and an attempt to become unnatural these experiences are simply signs of practice
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and should be regarded as transient events we should not attempt to re-experience them because to do so only serves to distort
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the natural spontaneity of mind all phenomena are completely new and fresh absolutely unique and entirely free from
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all concepts of past present and future they are experienced in timelessness the continual stream of new discovery revelation and inspiration which arises
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at every moment is the manifestation of our clarity you we should learn to see everyday life as Mandela
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the luminous fringes of experience which radiates spontaneously from the empty nature of our being the aspects of our mandala are the
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day-to-day objects of our life experience moving in the dance or play of the universe by this symbolism
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the inner teacher reveals the profound and ultimate significance of being therefore we should be natural and spontaneous accepting and learning from
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everything [Music] this enables us to see the ironic an amusing side of events that usually irritate us
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in meditation we can see through the illusion of past present and future our experience becomes the continuity of
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nowness the past is only an unreliable memory held in the present the future is only a projection of our present conceptions
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the present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it so why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground
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we should free ourselves from our past memories and preconceptions of meditation each moment of meditation is completely
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unique and full of potentiality [Music] in such moments we will be incapable of judging our meditation in terms of past
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experience DRI theory mahalo rhetoric simply plunging directly into meditation
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in the moment now with our whole being free from hesitation boredom or
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excitement is enlightenment you you you
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