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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 2h

In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful
To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you.
This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you.
Speak calmly – that’s my sincere advice.

~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 1d

The wish to try to prevent negative circumstances and suffering and to cause positive circumstances and happiness for all beings is important within the karmic system because it creates the seed of pure compassion and the right point of view.

~ Thinley Norbu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 2d

How wonderful! Supreme heart son—
when you sustain the view of the fundamental nature,
you encounter the mother of indivisibility.
In undistracted, uncontrived, non-meditation,
you encounter the mother of spontaneous presence.

~ Sera Khandro

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 3d

Metaphysically, subjectivity, represented by the vocable ‘I’ cannot possibly disappear — since it has never appeared — so that the notion of its being subjected to the process of ‘dying’ is out of the question and should never have been posed or entertained.

~ Wei Wu Wei

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 4d

We are spontaneously perfected in the uncontrived state
Of the great wisdom that is our awareness.
Non-contrivance is the path of our secret dominion.
We know of it by way of its lack of any origin or application.

~ The Tantra of Nine Jewel Spaces

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 5d

What is seen outside, manifesting clearly and unobscured from the eyes, is the light that arises from within the heart and simply passes through the channels of the eyes.

~ Trenpa Namkha

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 6d

If phenomena are constricted through the limited perception of the ordinary senses, the passions arise and cause karma. When phenomena are recognized as the inconceivable affluence of wisdom senses, Buddhahood is attained.

~ Thinley Norbu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 6d

Ultimate truth is held to be awareness
manifesting without elaboration,
spontaneously accomplished as the essential cause.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 7d

May sights and sounds become the state of emptiness beyond focal point,
And, out of this emptiness, perfect in a single moment of recollection,
May the kāya of the deity, the primordially perfect great seal,
Manifest completely, like a water bubble from water.

~ Mingyur Palgyi Drönma

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 8d

Practise letting go of your attachments, opening to your connection with others and settling into the intrinsic spaciousness of your being.

~ James Low

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 8d

Bull Elk with a massive rack in a green field with a lighter colored female grazing in the distance. Hickman County, Tennessee. Elk antlers can grow up to an inch a day and are among the fastest growing animal tissue on the planet.

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 9d

Through immersion in a clarity that is not static,
It dawns on us.
It is a magnificent clear light.
It is spontaneously realized from the primordial,
And has no position

~ Tantra of the Nine Jewel Spaces

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 10d

In the practice of the clear light of wisdom
We totally cut through the permanence that we crave for.
We cut through the brambles of our flickering ideas.

~ Tantra of the Nine Jewel Spaces

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 10d

The undivided intellect is, in fact, our secret mind.
It is not a subject.
It is not a reality.
It is not anything at all.
It is clear light.
It is beyond all our limited consciousnesses.

~ Tantra of the Nine Jewel Spaces

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 12d

When the mind of a sentient being, which is by nature clear light, does not objectify any appearances or mindsets, but makes them manifest, this very act of revealing is the external radiance of wisdom. The nature of what makes things manifest is the inner glow of wisdom.

~ Dudjom Lingpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 12d

Its essence is free from ordinary mind and is undeluded.
Its nature undermines the source of thoughts.
Its characteristics are unidentifiable.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 13d

Actually, since mind’s essence is pure, obscurations do not exist. But through our misinterpretation of all phenomena as real and tangible, they become temporary obscurations which trap us.

~ Thinley Norbu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 15d

When consciousness becomes fully enlightened and returns to its original state, consciousness doesn’t go into an eternal hibernation of ultimate peace. Consciousness continues as an amazing momentum of enlightened mind, which becomes a source of all goodness and benevolence.

~ Anam Thubten

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 15d

Basic space and primordial wisdom are indissolubly integrated, clarity and emptiness beyond thought like a cloudless sky. It is this limitless condition that has to be concretely realized!

~ Trenpa Namkha

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 16d

If all objects are understood to be projections of the mind, we can recognize that they are the display of the qualities of the mind, so that we are not fooled into thinking they are independent and external.

~ Thinley Norbu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 16d

Our choice is between democracy for everybody or for the few—between the spreading of social safeguards and economic opportunity to all the people—or the concentration of our abundant resources in the hands of selfishness and greed.

—Henry Wallace, (1944)

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 17d

Whatever arises or has arisen will change:
Everyone must give up their body and pass away.
The wise understand that all will be destroyed;
abiding in the Dharma, they act with certainty of liberation.

~ Udanavarga

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 17d

Tribes have now given place to nations; and this has happened because rulers found that it was possible, by means of suitable education and propaganda, to transfer the quasi-instinctive sentiment of tribalism from its natural object to a new, artificial object—the nation.

~ Aldous Huxley

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 18d

In this way, the natural Great Perfection is present as the nature of mind that transcends ordinary mind, as the uncompounded clear light of wisdom that is awareness, such as that all noble qualities of the essential nature are spontaneously present.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 19d

This king among vehicles holds stainless space -
the originally pure nature of mind whose nature is clear light,
the naturally present changeless self-manifest wisdom
that is naturally and spontaneously present in oneself -
to be the original ground of the Great Perfection.

~ Dudjom Rinpoche

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