Perfection with wisdom is the source of light and removed from everyone in the triple world. Darkness. She brings light so that all fear and distress, gloom and darkness may be forsaken. all of you right where you sit have a beam of light which is continuously which is continuously

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in here okay all of you right where you sit have a beam of light which is continuously shining now as always, free of all-knowing and grasping so that if someone asks you about this light and how you understand it,

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It may seem dim and dark. This light does not increase or decrease. If many Buddhas came in the room now it wouldn't get brighter.

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When they left it wouldn't get darker. All Buddhas in the ten directions of the universe are always sitting, unmoving, without coming or going. They practice this way so that all beings can see this light.

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They don't move around to help people see the light. They sit still in the midst of the light to show people how to find their own light. With an attitude of tender attention, without trying to get the light, they realize the light. A monk asked Yunman, what is everybody's light?

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Yunman said, whatever you're seeing right now, In 1924, a man was born in France, and they called him Jacques Moussaron. When he was seven years old, he lost his vision.

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He could see no more the world. But before he died, He was devoted to light. He was always absorbed in the light of the world. Sometime after he lost in vision of the world, he realized that he could still see that there was a light that he could still see without any objects to help him. And when he paid attention to this light with his whole body and mind

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He always knew that he was safe and he always knew how to act from the light. But if he became afraid or became angry, He lost contact with the light and didn't know what to do. But when he gave up his fear and his anger, he found the light again. The perfection of wisdom is the source of this light, and this light is the perfection of wisdom.

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When we're afraid, we're not in the present. and we can't see the light. When we're angry about something that has already happened, or because we're impatient with our pain, we lose the light. The light helps us forsake anger and fear And renouncing anger and fear revealed the light. Light is not something we can get. It's something we already have.

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We can only lose it by looking away. Try to get something or avoid something. Because everything we look away from is the light. The face of the Buddha way is to be totally absorbed in the womb of this life. Totally absorbed in the perfection of wisdom.

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Although you can't grab it, it has a practical aspect, which is simply to be gently attentive to whatever's happening. Attentive and gentle. Gentle and attentive. fully attentive with your whole body and mind, but just enough to be fully attentive, not overdoing it. When this little French boy grew up, to be a teenager or about 20, he was taken to a concentration camp operated by the German Nazi Party.

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And in that world of those camps, he continued his practice of being absorbed in the womb of light. And what he knew as a young boy continued to sustain him. He always knew how to take care of himself and other people because he was guided by this light. He thought of the future and what would happen to him or his friends and became afraid he would lose the light and be lost. He became angry at the cruelty and the atrocities which were all around him, he lost the light and became a slave of circumstances.

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But when he remembered the light, it was all right. Before Buddhas were Buddhas, they were just like us. Before they saw the light, they were just like us. Absorption and meditation on this light

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which you can't see or know, but which is you yourself, is the Buddha way. In a sense, this is an advanced practice. It's not something you can do. It's what you are. But in another sense, he's practiced a child. And all of you practiced it when you were little. Actually, I'm not sure you all practiced it. But I think many of you did. I hope you had a chance a few moments in your childhood of quiet when you could sit on a Sunday afternoon under the dining room table and look at the sun coming in the window

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and watched the dust motes dancing. I hope you had some moments like that where you didn't think of anything else and just watched the light. Day, such a day. You're sitting under the dining room table, It's Saturday. The other kids are quiet. You can sit here all day and watch the light. It won't go away and it won't come. It's already here. The question is, can we devote ourselves

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Our whole being generally attend to it, moment and moment. Homage to the perfection of wisdom, the lovely, the holy.

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The perfection of wisdom gives light. She is a source of light, and from everyone in the triple world, she removes darkness. Most excellent are her works. She brings light so that all fear and distress may be forsaken. and disperses the gloom and darkness, delusion. She herself is an organ of vision. She has a clear knowledge of the way things are happening right now. And she does not forsake this. Now, if we forsake a clear attention to what's happening right now, if our attention wavers and turns away from paying attention fully, then we have a practice of confession.

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We admit that we've wavered and resume our effort to be present with what's happening. And round and round we go, until we're just like the Buddhas, who are always sitting, unmovingly, so that all beings will be able to see the light.

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