When you have learned through
discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of
meditation, and through it loosened the hold of aggression, clinging, and
negativity on your whole being, the wisdom of insight can slowly dawn. And in
all-revealing clarity of its sunlight, this insight can show you, distinctly
and directly, both the subtlest workings of your own mind and the nature of
reality.
Glimpse after Glimpse,
Sogyal Rinpoche
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Circumstances have always intervened to simplify
everything for me. Surprisingly, the simpler things get, the quality of my life
increases. I remember reading more when the cable was cut off; i.e., I didn’t have
hundreds of channels on TV and the internet hadn’t come about yet. The things I
thought I can’t do without were done without in the not so distant past. Simplification,
however, can be about something altogether different than those material hindrances.
Going within and clearing out the clutter is a first step towards breathing and
breathing is the simplest thing I can do to begin the process.
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