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> [We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/we-should-cast-aside-all-childish-games-that-fetter-and-exhaust-body/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

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## More by Longchenpa

> [We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/we-should-cast-aside-all-childish-games-that-fetter-and-exhaust-body/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/always-engage-in-the-quest-for-life-s-meaning-which-is-inner-peace/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/begin-with-bodhicitta-do-the-main-practice-without-concepts-conclude/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [“in the universal womb that is boundless space all forms of matter and energy occur as flux of the four elements, but all are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/in-the-universal-womb-that-is-boundless-space-all-forms-of-matter-and/)

[longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/in-the-experience-of-yogins-who-do-not-perceive-things-dualistically/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/since-everything-is-but-an-apparition-having-nothing-to-do-with-good-2/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/self-appearing-subjects-and-objects-are-the-power-of-the-baseless/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [“homage to glorious samantabhadra, the all-good to timeless buddhahood, basic total presence, to unchanging spontaneity, the spacious vajra-heart, to the nature of mind -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/homage-to-glorious-samantabhadra-the-all-good-to-timeless-buddhahood/)

[longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [“freedom attends reality: free at the core, any effort is wasted; timelessly free, no release is needed; free in itself, no corrective is possible;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/freedom-attends-reality-free-at-the-core-any-effort-is-wasted/)

[longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [Realization that is beyond characteristic or designation is marvelous!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/realization-that-is-beyond-characteristic-or-designation-is-marvelous/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/let-the-flower-of-compassion-blossom-in-the-rich-soil-of-ma-tre-and/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/to-reject-practice-by-saying-it-is-conceptual-is-the-path-of-fools-a/)

[Longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

> [“pure mind is like the empty sky, without memory, supreme meditation; it is our own nature, unstirring, uncontrived, and wherever that abides is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/longchenpa/pure-mind-is-like-the-empty-sky-without-memory-supreme-meditation-it/)

[longchenpa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/longchenpa/)

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