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Don't do anything

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"If we want to realize the truth, the first thing to remember is that
we don't have to do anything. No sacred dances. No secret mantras.
No religious conversion. We just sit quietly wherever we find ourselves
and simply don't do anything. This is most important. Don't do anything.
We look directly and see what is true in that moment without labeling or
judging anything. Now we see the truth which is beyond our fantasies."

Anam Thubten; NO SELF, NO PROBLEM; pgs. 84-5

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