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| free and easy: |
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| happiness is not to be found |
| through great effort and willpower |
| it is already present in open relaxation and letting go |
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| don't strain |
| there's nothing to do or to undo |
| whatever momentarily and adventitiously arises in body-mind |
| has no real import at all |
| has very little reality at all |
| why identify with it and become attached to it, |
| passing judgement on it and on yourself and others? |
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| far better simply |
| to just let the entire game happen on its own |
| springing up and falling back again like waves |
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| without 'rectifying' or manipulating things |
| just noticing how everything vanishes |
| and then magically reappears, again and again and again |
| time without end |
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| it's only our searching for happiness |
| that prevents us from seeing it |
| like a vivid rainbow one runs after but can never catch |
| or a dog chasing its own tail |
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| though peace and happiness have no existence |
| as some actual place or thing |
| they are forever at hand - |
| one's constant companion at every instant |
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| just don't be taken in by the apparent reality |
| of good and bad experiences |
| they're like today's passing weather |
| like rainbows in the sky |
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| wanting to grasp the ungraspable |
| you exhaust yourself in vain |
| but as soon as you open up and relax the tight fist of |
| grasping |
| infinite space is right there - open, inviting, comfortable |
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| use this spaciousness - this freedom and natural ease |
| don't look anywhere else |
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| don't go off into the tangled jungle |
| searching for the elephant of great awakenedness |
| when he is already at home |
| quietly resting in front of your own hearth |
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| there's nothing to do or to undo |
| nothing to force |
| nothing you have to want |
| nothing missing |
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| emaho - how marvellous |
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| everything just happens of itself |
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| ~ Gen'dn Rinpoche ~ |
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