When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
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In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
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Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.
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If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
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Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.
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Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.
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If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
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We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.
