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Ep. 187 – The Three Characteristics of Life

Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield

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The Teachings of Selflessness

The human mind has absolute freedom within its nature, says Dogen. Don't work towards it but allow the work itself to be an expression of this freedom. When you've thrown away all your conceptions of mind and body, all your hopes and aspirations, the original truth will appear in its fullness. If you want to find out what awakening is, this is what it is about. There's nothing that anybody can give you because you're already complete. The seeing, the hearing, the tasting, the smelling, the thinking in this physical sensation, they'll never be anymore. They change a little, but that's it. What could you add to that or subtract from it? That

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