Sublime

relate to your righteous indignation,

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

The instruction is to relate compassionately with where we find ourselves and to begin to see our predicament as workable. We are stuck in patterns of grasping and fixating which cause the same thoughts and reactions to occur again and again and again. In this way we project our world. When we see that, even if it’s only for one second every three

them or pin them down. It doesn’t mean that they

“Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.”

It is simply a process of seeing what is, noticing that, accepting that, and then going on with life, which, in terms of the technique, is coming back to the simplicity of nowness, the simplicity of the out-breath.

Then Jamgon Kongtrul said to him, “Someday you’re going to meet the people who make these things, and you’re going to work with them. It’s not going to be easy, because you’re going to find that they’re more interested in staying asleep than in waking up.” That’s what he said about us. So when you realize that’s true about yourself, remind yourself

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The way that we can help is by making friends with our own feelings of hatred, bewilderment, and so forth. Then we can accept them in others.