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Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sogyal Rinpoche
Died: 2019
Died: August 28
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Awake
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Mind

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Sit, then, as if you were a mountain, with all the unshakeable, steadfast majesty of a mountain. A mountain is completely natural and at ease with itself, however strong the winds that try to bother it, however thick the dark clouds that swirl around its peak. Sitting like a mountain, let your mind rise and fly and soar
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