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Our only purpose

So what are you still carrying?  No... real question.  What are you still carrying?  Are you still carrying everyone who's insulted you, injured you or in some way defamed or bothered you or hurt you, attacked or interfered with you?  That's a lot of weight.  I'd let it go, personally, and just move on and forget.  Whether you forgive or not doesn't matter.  Forgiveness is a silly word.  Forget is the correct word.  Be in the moment.  Don't even notice.  Personal power means that you cannot notice things.  You see them in your peripheral vision but they're not worth focusing on because you only get caught up in them, and to get caught up in them distracts you from someplace you want to be - eternal awareness of light.

The only issue is, how long will it take you to wake up?  As long as you choose, it's completely within your control.  The more deeply you meditate, the more quietly you work, the less excuses you make, the more you simplify your life, the less you expect to be happy here, and the more you move your mind into the upward radiances of the ten thousand lights of enlightenment, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment, that's when you'll be happy.  All this work is simply to gain the mental control to put the mind in alignment with the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment and experience them in various gradations forever.  That's our only purpose.  All of this is only to do that.  That's the total purpose of a monk.

- Tantric Buddhism

 
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