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Absolute Spontaneity: Meditation Instruction I

In meditation see through the illusion of past, present and future. The past is but a present memory or condition, the future a present projection, and the present itself vanishes before it can be grasped.

From “The Way of Maha Ati,” in The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, Volume One, page 464.

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