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Book: Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment
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  1. Lama Surya Das _ Awakening the Buddha Within:

    New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out of negative motivation, negativity is furthered. "We can recondition ourselves to act with wisdom. The important thing to understand here is that you are not a victim. You are your own master. 'As you sow, so shall you reap.
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  2. Lama Surya Das _ Awakening the Buddha Within:

    To just be--to be--amidst all doings, achievings, and becomings. This is the natural state of mind, or original, most fundamental state of being. This is unadulterated Buddha-nature. This is like finding our balance.
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  3. Lama Surya Das _ Awakening the Buddha Within:

    I've also learned that you don't always get to pick the people with whom you travel the journey. You sometimes may think you do, but don't be deceived. And the corollary of that - and this was my real lesson - is that you start to realize that you can love even the people you don't like and must love and help everyone.
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  4. Lama Surya Das _ Awakening the Buddha Within:

    Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead it's about becoming more fully human. . . . It is the end of ignorance.
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