Thought

Thought itself is not a problem.  Thought is not the deceiving enemy.  I am the deceiving enemy – because I appropriate thought to validate my existence as solid, permanent, separate, continuous, and defined.

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Self-liberation

Self-liberation is simply what happens if we do nothing to prevent it.  Doing nothing to prevent it, however, can be extremely difficult.  It could take a second or a century.

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What we love

We should prioritise what we love – and what animates existence.  To do less is to be less than half alive,  Life sparkles with intrinsic magic that is suddenly and delightfully communicative when you find yourself in love.

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All there is

The play of the elements is actually all there is.  It’s completely simple – and the vast spectrum of Vajrayana is an extrapolation of that.

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As if it were a film

Vajra simple-mindedness is the power to cut through the unnecessary complications manufactured by attempting to edit life, as if it were a film.  We need to abandon attempts to rewrite Vajrayana in order to splice together a ‘dualistically coherent movie’.

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