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meditation (a quote from Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche)

17 Monday Nov 2014

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If we have ambitions—even if our aim is enlightenment— then there is no meditation, because we are thinking about it, craving it, fantasizing, imagining things. That is not meditation. This is why an important characteristic of shamatha meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else. It doesn’t matter if we get enlightenment or not. It doesn’t matter if our friends get enlightened faster. Who cares? We are just breathing. We just sit straight and watch the breath in and out. Nothing else. We let go of our ambitions. This includes trying to do a perfect shamatha meditation. We should get rid of even that. Just sit.

—Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

both (quotation by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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“Love without sacrifice is like theft.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb100_1497

let go (a quote from Joseph Campbell)

15 Tuesday Apr 2014

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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. –Joseph Campbell

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balancing act (tweet)

07 Friday Mar 2014

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Tightrope path: to allow yourself to want something to the exact degree you’re willing to let it go.

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