Since everything is but an apparition,
perfect in being what it is,
having nothing to do with good or bad,
acceptance or rejection,
one may well burst out in laughter.
~ Longchenpa
Spirituality, meditation, enlightenment isn’t serious stuff. If you’re overly serious about it, you have much work left to do. For many years, this beautifully-calligraphed quote hung in Marpa House. Not sure where it hangs, now. ~ ed.
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Love it, Waylon. Ya just gotta laugh!
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go stand out in the middle of the road and keep telling yourself that, then comeback and tell me if its true..