Sogyal Rinpoche tells a story that I take great joy in. It is about an especially "thick headed" disciple who had tried and tried to "get it". His master gave him a bag of barley and ordered him to take that bag to the top of "that mountain over there". Being a devoted disciple, the simple monk carried the bag of barley all the way to the top of the mountain. Once there he was too exhausted to think and all mental resistance dissolved. At the top of the mountain he "got it!"My belief is that "It" is always there but it is resistance that prevents me from knowing it. As long as the mind is full of resistance there is, as the love song goes, "no mountain high enough..."
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