é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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The purpose of reflection on death is to make a real change in the depths of our hearts. Often this will require a period of retreat and deep contemplation, because only that can truly open our eyes to what we are doing with our lives.
Contemplation on death will bring you a deepening sense of what we call “renunciation,” in Tibetan ngé jung. Ngé means “actually” or “definitely,” and jung to “come out,” “emerge” or “be born.” The fruit of frequent and deep reflection on death will be that you will find yourself emerging, often with a sense of disgust, from your habitual patterns. You will find yourself increasingly ready to let go of them, and in the end you will be able to free yourself from them as smoothly, the masters say, “as drawing a hair from a slab of butter.” -
Anger is the negative energy in oneself with high destructive power.
When in anger, a normal person becomes more lethal than war weapons. -
Reduce others’ vexations with compassion: reduce your own with wisdom.
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Suffer because one is too attached to self.
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Merit making calculated to impress is not real merit. _()_
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Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span.
For one swept to old age no shelters exist.
Perceiving this danger in death,
one should drop the world's bait and look for peace.
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