Topic: From Tantric Buddhists

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No-one else is responsible for how we perceive the world.

Great!  Kind of like the Second Agreement!

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Awareness means relinquishing the police state of karmic-vision and assuming personal responsibility

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The first fundamental certainty is the experience of unsatisfactoriness. Dukkha—unsatisfactoriness—is not what we are and where we are – but how we are. It’s the subjective quality of our experience that is being described as unsatisfactory. The problem lies in our way of seeing rather than in the material fabric of the world.

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The ‘Law of Karma’ is different from externally enforced societal law, because ‘karmic law’ is directly consequential and self-implementing. We perceive the world in a certain way, and react to it in accordance with that style of perception. That is what is meant by karma. There’s no injustice in this kind of ‘law’ apart from the injustice to the nondual state perpetrated by karmic patterning.

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Becoming a Buddhist is a process of continually becoming a Buddhist – of continually breaking through limitations and conditioned perception.

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To fall in love is to initiate the dissolution of the boundaries which fix limited ideas of ourselves. To be challenged or threatened by the outrageous transmission of romance is the living blood of Vajrayana.

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Impermanence and death are the joy of being. Impermanence and death are the continuity of existence.

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Whether there is stillness or movement, rage or lust, happiness or sadness – sustain recognition of total presence at all times in every situation.

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The more you disapprove of your own neuroses, the more of a problem they become

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The basis of compassion is realising that samsara does not work.

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Buddhism is a statement of our intrinsic goodness; and the possibility of discovering that intrinsic goodness.

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Refuge – we seek protection from our own conceptual minds: from our compulsion to split reality into dualistic view; from our addiction to conditioned responses rooted in preconception.

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Everything has to die in order to be born in the next moment and to experience it fully.