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12/30/2020

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"The moment that we remove all of the obscurations that cover our primordial nature, all of the enlightened qualities of a buddha just naturally, spontaneously and effortlessly arise."
~ Chamtrul, Rinpoche

All wisdom traditions eventually say the same thing.  Your highest nature, Ultimate Reality, is inherent.  It is within us.  We don't create it.  We can't make it any more obvious than it already is by trying harder.  What we can do is get out of the way and let it unfold, or in Chamtrul, Rinpoche's words noted above, we can remove the obscurations that hide it.  That is yoga.  That is why the yogi lives an intentional, engaged lifestyle.  But said lifestyle shouldn't be envisioned as work or even discipline.  It's not hard to do the right things and avoid the wrong things.  It might not be popular.  One might not be familiar with such a lifestyle.  But it isn't hard.  In fact, given the benefits of yoga-dharma, it is much more enjoyable than not engaging.

​Yet, so few really follow the path.  As a famous teacher said, this path is narrow and the gate straight, and only a few will follow.  Yoga-dharma is no mystery.  There are infinite volumes on the how and why of it, but they mean no more than the words I'm writing now.  It's just ink on the page.  It isn't understood until it's directly experienced.  We can read, write, and talk, but it doesn't mean a thing till we walk the walk.

​This is the way.

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