It may look as if we're doing nothing on the cushion, but in fact we're cultivating peace. From that point of view, the practice of meditation is a courageous activity. Through peaceful abiding, we learn to rest fearlessly in our natural state, which is basic goodness. If we can learn to relax our discursive mind, we will find that underneath it all, we already happy. Each time you return to the breath, you're taking one step away from addiction to discursiveness and fear and one step forward on the path of enlightenment. The path of meditation isn't necessarily about becoming a Buddhist. It's about awakening to who we already are: buddha-"awakened one."

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

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Be without fear in the face of your enemies.
Be brave and upright that God may love thee.
Speak the truth always, safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong.

This is our Oath!!

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"The root of all faults, all failings, is nothing other than ignorance. This ignorance is like mistaking a heap of stones on the horizon for a human figure; it has no basis whatsoever, which means that even the source of these faults and failings does not exist." Our problems, in other words, all come from nothing; they are all based on a misunderstanding that does not even exist. The more I think about what Padmasambhava said, the more I realise how true it is. With all our ideas, with all our misunderstandings, how often do we ever grasp more than a partial and distorted version of how things really are? Our whole vision of reality in fact amounts to a fabrication, an exaggeration, a fantastic edifice of delusion. Once we miss understanding, we create something based on that missing of the point, which can not but be a lie and an illusion. And in turn, we swallow the lie and fall for the illusion and take it to be true, like the fool who spends his life chasing after the fabled crock of gold that is buried at the end of a rainbow.

Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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