From Sogyal Rinpoche
“The more often you listen to your discriminating awareness, the more easily you will be able to change your negative moods yourself, see through them, and even laugh at them for the absurd dramas and ridiculous illusions that they are.
Gradually you will find yourself able to free yourself more and more quickly from the dark emotions that have ruled your life, and this ability to do so is the greatest miracle of all.
The Tibetan mystic, Tertön Sogyal, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.”
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Hi Susan – this post/quote really spoke to me. Thanks. I wonder what is meant by ‘discriminating’ awareness. Can you say more about that?
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By discriminating awareness, what is meant is, ultimately, your ability to tell reality from illusion. Part of you is always tuned into the highest truth and part is making up stories. The more you listen to your higher wisdom, then, more readily your negative moods can be shifted.
This is my interpretation!