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“Guru Rinpoche has given us the essential opening instructions for practicing Pristine Mind meditation in four steps:
Don’t follow the past.
Don’t anticipate the future.
Remain in the present moment.
Leave your mind alone.”
― Orgyen Chowang, Our Pristine Mind: A Practical Guide to Unconditional Happiness

“We wish in every lifetime to be reborn in the vajra family of enlightenment, to be a teacher of the Secret Mantra of Vajrasattva. We wish to be reborn with compassion, with devotion to the teacher, lifetime after lifetime. We wish, in all our lifetimes, to be holders of the vajra and bell, to be capable of learning profound instructions, and to work for the benefit of sentient beings.”
― Orgyen Chowang, From Foundation to Summit: A Guide to Ngöndro and the Dzogchen Path

“Without the recognition of awareness”
― Orgyen Chowang, From Foundation to Summit: A Guide to Ngöndro and the Dzogchen Path