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There are many ways up the mountain and each of us must choose a practice that feels true to our heart.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.
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In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is. We can touch with great compassion the pain from the contracted identities that we and others have created in the world.
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
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Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.
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July 16, 1945
(age 79)
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