On the Poetics of Awakening
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The Importance of Relaxation
The Buddha talked about contracted mind and expanded mind. It's good to just sort of relax and trust that stuff will happen without us really trying to force it. All sentient beings, even though they possess the actual essence of Buddhahood, will not realise Buddhahood without engaging in practice. Padma Samba-ba says that just as in the case with the sesame seed being the cause of the oil,. but where the oil is not obtained without pressing and the butter is not obtaining without churning.
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