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Twenty minutes of concentrated, untired attention is infinitely better than three hours of the kind of frowning application that leads us to say with a sense of duty done: “I have worked well!”
“No matter what we do in this life, all the information we gather and all the knowledge we accumulate and all the effort we make to amass wealth through work and business—when the time comes for us to leave this life, all of it is futile and in vain. It will not help us in any way whatsoever. I can easily say this since I am not educated at all! So I can smile and act big about this. Don’t be angry, please.”
― As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
― As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
“All sentient beings are buddhas, but they are covered by temporary obscurations. When these are removed, they are truly buddhas enlightened.”
― As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
― As It Is, Volume I: Essential Teachings from the Dzogchen Perspective
“I think we’re addicted to being triggered”
― Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
― Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
“when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Everyone was crying for the poor dead bird as they went around murdering flowers, plucking their stalks, exclaiming, “What lovely flowers! Little Mr. Budgie will definitely be pleased.” They looked so bizarre I thought they must all be out of their minds.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
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