Tilopa Quotes

• Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.

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  Letting Go, Spiritual, Trying

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• Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about anything look at experience beyond thought; open minded like space. Let go of control and stop and rest at ease in that state. Awareness without projection is the greatest meditation. Train and develop like this and you will come to the deepest awakening.

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  Letting Go, Thinking, Echoes

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• The appearances of the world are not the problem,
  it's clinging to them that causes suffering

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  Meditation, Suffering, World

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• Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

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  Philosophy, Light, Discipline

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• No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.

  Tilopa

  Reflection, Analysis, Settling

  "Zen and Reality". Book by Robert Powell, p. 72, 1975.

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• It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

  Tilopa

  Attachment, Appearance

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• Don’t recall. Don’t imagine. Don’t think. Don’t examine. Don’t control. Rest.

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  Thinking, Imagine, Recalls

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• Realizing that nothing can last, that all is as dreamlike illusion.

  Tilopa

  Lasts, Realizing, Illusion

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• One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

  Tilopa

  Buddhist, Darkness, Torches

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• It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.

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  Clinging, Objects

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• Cut the mind at its root and rest in naked awareness

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  Cutting, Roots, Mind

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