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Train in maintaining a clear and steady visualization of the form of the Buddha.

Chapter 9 of Heart of Meditation Sutra — “There can be no conceit in seeing the truth”

Buddhism is not against comfort, but it is against the delusion that anything other than Dharma can create lasting satisfaction. Buddhism always reminds us, “Impermanence! Impermanence!”

Discipline is about creating the conditions for a healthy, stable mind.
86 — when your body and speech are under control, your mind becomes stable. Likewise, when your mind is stable, your body and speech are careful

And now a chapter for me! Ch. 4 Loving-Kindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity, and immediately Rinpoche makes himself accessible by writing “although the sprout was there, even with a lot of training it wasn’t turning into a tree.”

“Without mindfulness, you suffer and you spread suffering.” (Noted in November)

Last night I read about inter connectivity and “leg-ness,” immediately after I’d read a passage in Whitehead’s Intuitionist about “separating the elevator from elevator-ness” (115).