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The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands.
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― Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World
― Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World
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The light of the sun is the manifestation of the clarity of the sky; and the sky is the basic condition necessary for the manifestation of the sun's light. So, too, in the sky two, three, four, or any number of suns could arise; but the sky always remains indivisibly one sky. Similarly, every individual's state of presence is unique and distinct, but the void nature of the individual is universal, and common to all beings.
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― Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
― Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State
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