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If there is a subject or an object there is grasping. Rigpa is not an object of knowledge and the one perceiving or recognizing it is not a subject. ~ Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The subject that observes and manipulates objects becomes alienated from its world. To experience oneself as one of many things in the world is to experience the world as a collection of separate things, which according to Daoism and Buddhism is a serious error. ~ David Loy

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One’s attention, liberated or not, is always limited by the forms of awareness that circumstances make available. The paradox is that to be one with those conditions is to experience one’s awareness and life as unconditioned. ~ David Loy

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there anyone more shameless in the eyes of those who have a conscience than someone who does not provide refuge for those who lack it, who does not, to the best of his abilities, comfort others or who takes the wealth of his subjects without thinking about them? ~ Mipham

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once you’ve realized the nature of space, To have space made apparent Is the Great Perfection, the supreme path of freedom. There is nothing to do other than the Great Perfection. Everything is emptiness; this realization of indwelling space Is the view of emptiness. ~ Dudjom Lingpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don’t pursue or cling to the object of desire; attend to the clinging mind. The appearance of clinging instantly self-liberates into the bliss of emptiness. The bliss of emptiness is nothing but discriminating insight. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The exalted state of the Great Perfection is beyond the reach of words, thought, and expression. Rest in that experience, without fabricating it by dualistic mind. ~ Sera Khandro

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t need a retinue and students. They just cause anger. Intangible deities and demons are my retinue and disciples to tame. I don’t need anything! Everything is ruined by needs. ~ Sera Khandro

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When I was born, I had no head, my eye was single and my whole body also was filled with light; and the light that I was, was the light that I saw by, and the light that I saw by was the light that I was. ~ M. Heron

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Son, the wide-awake consciousness of this moment Is the dharmakaya, the wisdom of your instant presence. Keep it immaculate, vividly clear, and naked! Leave it evenly, free from thinking and beyond the conceptual mind! ~ Shense Lhaje

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just us. In our little house Far from everybody, Far from the world, Only the sound of water over stone. And then I say to you, "Listen. Hear the wind in the trees." ~ K. Rexroth

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The vulture in the sky is skillful in flying, Without impediments he soars everywhere. How quiet is the country without an owner! How happy are the deer without an enemy! ~ Shense Lhaje

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

After recognizing, you should enhance that—by repeating short moments, many times. It should be short, because when the moment is short, there is no time for new thoughts to come in and obscure it. If you try to make it last longer, it becomes merely a conceptual idea. ~ Tulku Urgyen

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whatever manifests as objects, whatever arises in the mind, the key point of these phenomena is the state of evenness - utter relaxation, with neither suppresion nor indulgence. Abandon yourself in imperturbable rest, for this is the very consummation of enlightened intent. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These teachings thus make fully evident the ultimate meaning of the sublimely secret great perfection, so that it is no longer elusive. May they free all beings without exception, effortlessly and naturally, within primordial basic space as the ground of being. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some are of this type from the start, while others become that way through refinement. ~ Treasury of Higher Teachings

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In meditation that constitutes uncultivated abiding, the avenues of the senses are lucid, though conceptual mind does not engage in thought. Mind that reflects on awareness itself is such that it is not lost to outer phenomena. ~ Reverberation of Sound

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Since there is freedom in the bare act of perception, things fade in the very moment of seeing them. Freedom is absolute, so there is natural purity. Freedom is beyond time, so gradual familiarization is unnecessary. Freedom is natural, so it is uncontrived. ~ The Reverberation of Sound

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

View is unique, free of the limits of elaboration. Meditation is unique, free of the limits of concepts or focused attention. Conduct is unique, free of the limits of effort or achievement. Fruition is unique, free of the limits of renunciation or attainment. ~ Shri Singha

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Dharmadhatu, luminous but not manifest, permeates everything everywhere. It is the supreme level, beyond conceptual fabrication. It is primordial enlightenment within samsara itself. It is instant arrival on the unfabricated level. ~ Namkha Dang Nyampai Gyu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Marvelous! The experiential domain of buddhas is not some place discovered by searching. Because this domain is not an object, like (a specific) phenomenon of the six senses, searching for it is like a blind person trying to grab the sky. ~ Kunjed Gyalpo

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Never ignore your basic attitude. Be gracious. Respect, gratitude, and devoted interest are all we need. If we have those, we’re not lacking anything. Apply joyful effort. With an appreciative awareness of primordial purity, we discover true beauty everywhere, in abundance. ~ Khenchen Palden Sherab

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

All you practitioners, male and female, who wish to realize the faultless and correct point of view, should let your mind rest fully awake in a state of unfabricated emptiness. When your mind is quiet, then rest in that quietness without trying to fabricate anything. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

You masters who are clever in teaching and you students who are good in meditation, don't be proud; take advice from those who are learned. Don't invent everything yourself; resolve your own mind. Don't deceive yourself; be free from doubt. ~ Patrul Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the natural context of evenness, with no split between objects and mind, rest free of any framework, with naturally pristine perception that leaves no trace. Timeless awareness -profound insight - is evident within the ultimate state of innate lucidity. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Without wishing for the state to continue for a long time and without fearing the lack of it altogether, all that is necessary is to maintain pure presence of mind, without falling into the dualistic situation of there being an observing subject perceiving an observed object. ~Namkhai Norbu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the same way, one comes to the moment-by-moment decisive experience of what is innately pristine, empty yet lucid, by letting the busyness of apparent phenomena and mind rest naturally in the lucid expanse, so there is utter relaxation, nonconceptual and free of elaboration. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Things appear without being reified as objects, while mind arises without being reified as a subject. The eyes see without analyzing. One is led along the path of ineffability - the nature of phenomena. ~ Reverberation of Sound

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Once you have the View, You will be like the sky; When a rainbow appears, it is not flattered, when clouds appear, it is not disappointed. There is a deep sense of contentment. ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Without deliberately settling, without thinking, and without requiring anything, abide naturally in nonconceptual evenness. Since this has always been so, the mind of effort does not pertain. Any abiding in that supreme bliss constitutes the heart essence of all phenomena. ~ Kunjed Gyalpo

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Beyond the conceptual mind, without limitations, blissful, clear, and thought-free, Self-originated wisdom never ceases and has no delusion, Transcending the limits of the dualistic considerations of hope and fear. Since everything is contained in the same essence, overcome duality! ~ Shense Lhaje

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

He is the essence which is the reality of motivation, yet he is not motivation. He is the essence which is the reality of consciousness, yet he is not consciousness. Like the element of space, he does not abide in any of the four elements. ~ Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

All phenomena of the world of appearances and possibilities, whether of samsara or nirvana, abide in supreme spontaneous presence as the natural radiance of the three kayas - essence as emptiness, nature as lucidity, and responsiveness as the arising of their myriad display. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

How marvelous! The vajra of self-knowing awareness is timeless awareness blazing everywhere. The naturally manifest vajra without characteristics blazes in all directions. The radiantly fearless vajra is supreme emptiness. ~ The Perfect Dynamic Energy of the Lion

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Phenomena can have only an apparent space-time existence as concepts in mind. Then who is there “competely to comprehend” this? Nobody, I do. As any sentient-being may say, if he apperceives that— Objective absence is subjective presence, Which is absolute release. ~ Wei wu Wei

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Those who dwell in supreme bliss embody the heart essence of all phenomena. They do not distinguish between their own welfare and that of all others. ~ Kunjed Gyalpo

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Vajra basic space-the supremely blissful state of natural rest-is sublime meditative stability, spontaneously present without having to be cultivated. Always present, like the course of a great river, it is self-evident if there is uncontrived equipoise. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the state of samsara there is no samsara. In the state of confused samsara, there is nirvana. Samsara appears as wisdom for the learned ones. Samsara appears as darkness for the unlearned. There is no other nectar when samsara is rejected. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny. ~ Luther Standing Bear

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Awakening is not the result of an activity but it is the freedom which is revealed when you stop making unnecessary activity. ~ James Low

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you don't study, it is a great defect in your life. But to study erroneous ideas can cause greater harm. Now, when you can read the writings of a learned master, wouldn't it make sense to open your eyes & study them? ~ Patrul Rinpoche, An Exhortation to Read the Excellent Writings of Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The kayas are not achieved by effort involving cause and effect. They are timelessly and spontaneously present, manifesting within a state of resting imperturbably. The most sublime secret manifests in this lifetime. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

All three worlds come into being from the mind. The mind never reveals itself. It is without form, ethically neutral, and like an apparition. The wise seek the nature of the mind. Whoever seeks out the mind does not see the nature of the mind. ~ Sutra of the 33 Questions

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

When there is the self, there is the discernment of others. Grasping and hatred occur towards the factions of self and other, and in relation to those all mental afflictions occur. ~ Commentary on Verifying Cognition

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Do we suffer due to other people's malice? Are we being punished by other people? Is some external agent the root cause of our suffering? On the contrary, we sow the seeds of our own grief by grasping onto our own personal identity. ~ Gyatul Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The whole thrust of Great Perfection practice is primordial reality. This has always been the case; it is not something we fabricate or imagine. Rather, it is a reality to be discovered. The various divine embodiments are all qualities of a single awareness - your own. ~ Gyatrul Rinpoche

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Unobstructed self-knowing awareness itself, the illumination found within one, does not involve any conceptual limitation, but is present as its own radiance. ~ The Perfect Dynamic Energy of the Lion

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The buddhas of the ten directions are my Presence. The animate and inanimate universe is my Presence. Directions and manifestations are my Presence. Outer and inner also are my Presence. The higher and lower realms are my Presence. ~ Kuntuzangpo Chewa Rangla Nepai Gyu

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Although in actuality concepts do not stray from the scope of awareness, awareness is beyond the scope of ordinary thought and so is completely nonconceptual timeless awareness. This is the enlightened mind of the buddhas, which abides free of the limitations of ordinary thought. ~ Longchenpa

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Ogmin @ogmin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

finally out of drought conditions here in middle Tennessee

Massive thunderhead blossoming into an open blue sky over southern-middle Tennessee

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