Dharma practice means physical hardship; it means that you shouldn't be pansies about it. You should exert yourselves wholeheartedly to engage in the practice, so that it will affect your body, speech, and mind.
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The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should they be flat like a painting. In contrast, they should be apparent, yet not truly existent, like a rainbow in the sky or the reflection of the moon in a lake. They should appear as though conjured up by a magician. Clear appearance involves fixing the mind one-pointedly on these forms with a sense of vividness, nakedness, lucidity, and clarity.
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world and the most profound pilgrimage that I can ever make is within my own body.
As long as we're in a state of confusion, overwhelmed by the three conflicting emotions, trapped in cyclic existence, we're not happy and we can't benefit sentient beings. Even though we think we might be benefitting them, ultimately we're not. The only way to really be of benefit, to ourselves and others, is to establish the status of buddha. There's nothing better than this. But until we purify our unwholesome karma, especially that of the body, there's no buddha__he buddha will not exist for us.
The Heart-mantra of Dependent Origination (rten-'brel snying-po [ར_ེ____ེལ_____]), which liberates the enduring continuum of phenomena and induces the appearance of multiplying relics ('phel-gdung [__ེལ_____] and rainbow lights, is:[O_ YE DHARM_ HETUPRABHAV_HETUN TEṢ TATH_GATOHY AVADAT TEṢ CA YONIRODHO EVA V_DIMAH__RAMA_ [YE SV_H_]('Whatever events arise from a cause, the Tathag_ta [Buddha, "Thus-gone"] has told the cause thereof, and the great virtuous ascetic has taught their cessation as well [so be it]').
Hate is a disease, but love is its only cure.
Love knows no barriers, no distance.It makes you dance as if in a trance,And catches you up when you are down.It makes you draw a smile from a frown,And embarks you in a river when you fall, And most of its grace, it embraces us all!