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His Holiness
The Third Dalai Lama
Sonam Gyatso
(1543–1588)
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“During meditation sessions, place the mind evenly in concentration and special insight, and focus single-pointedly upon emptiness, which is as free of extremes as the sky is of tangible hindrances. Between sessions, watch how things, while not inherently existent, manifest like a magician’s creations. In this way take up the practices of wisdom and method combined — true meditation upon emptiness, held by great compassion and bodhicitta — and go to the other side of a bodhisattva’s practices. Understanding this path worthy of praise, do not be satisfied by training in only method or wisdom, but combine the two in a balanced way. Such training is the spiritual legacy of people of good fortune. Apply yourself to it.”
From The Essence of Refined Gold – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by His Holiness the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam Gyatso As translated in: The Essence of Refined Gold by the Third Dalai Lama, translated by Glenn H. Mullin (1982)
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