Awareness is like a wind. If you open your doors and windows, it is bound to come in.
From The Path Is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation, page 116.
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Looking out the screen door at Chogyam Trungpa’s retreat house in Charlemont, Massachusetts, 1976/77. Photographer unknown.
Due to technical difficulties, it was not possible to send this quote on April 4th. It is excerpted from a talk by Diana J. Mukpo,
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