"What's recommended is that if you have a good experience, don't get too excited. And if you have a bad experience, don't mistake it for a serious deviation or a sidetrack that you have to find your way back from. If you have a bad experience, just continue practicing as you were. In other words, whatever happens, just keep looking at your mind."

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Source : Thrangu Rinpoche (2003). “Pointing Out the Dharmakaya: Teachings on the Ninth Karmapa's Text”, p.73, Shambhala

Thrangu Rinpoche

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“It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.”

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Source : "Amiable Democratic debate may signal endgame of Gore-Bradley contest" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.
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Source : "4 GOP Senators Hold Firm Against Patriot Act Renewal", Washington Post (p. A04), December 21, 2005.

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