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Sometime go outside and sit

Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso), Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso) poetry, Buddhist, Buddhist poetry, Tibetan poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry,  poetry by Tsoknyi Rinpoche (Ngawang Tsoknyi Gyatso)
(1966 - ) Timeline

English version by
Erik Pema Kunsang & Marcia Binder Schmidt

Buddhist : Tibetan
Contemporary

Sometime go outside and sit,
In the evening at sunset,
When there's a slight breeze that touches your body,
And makes the leaves and the trees move gently.
You're not trying to do anything, really.
You're simply allowing yourself to be,
Very open from deep within,
Without holding onto anything whatsoever.
Don't bring something back from the past, from a memory.
Don't plan that something should happen.
Don't hold onto anything in the present.
Nothing you perceive needs to be nailed down.
Simply let experience take place, very freely,
So that your empty, open heart
Is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

 

 

-- from Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training the Nature of the Mind, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche / Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang

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Themes

  Bower
  Heart
  Tree
 
 


Recommended Books


Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training the Nature of the Mind, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche / Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
Fearless Simplicity: The Dzogchen Way of Living Freely in a Complex World, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche / Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang
Hinting at Dzogchen: A Compendium of Teachings by Tsoknyi Rinpoche, by Tsoknyi Rinpoche / Edited by Lotsawa Tony Duff

 

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