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Awakening is the only way to clear the setup

《Master's Dharma Teachings: A Remedy for Life's Low Tide》 Vajra Master Urgyen Topden Rinpoche
Awakening is the only way to clear the setup
2026.10.27
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I tell you, awakening is simple — just think of the day you die, and you'll be awakened.No need to say more; saying more is useless.

Learn attainment from death, understand death, and you will know the meaning of life.If you don't understand death, you just live stupidly.When you feel life has a conclusion, that you will eventually walk toward death, you'll turn back and live properly, live well, arrange your own self properly.Many people forget they are going to die.They forget — forgotten — so they assume there is still tomorrow, after tomorrow the day after, after that the day after that, living to 80, to 90.But the problem is, the 80-year-old you, the 90-year-old you — what will you be doing then?Look at the 80- or 90-year-olds walking on the street, or in the nursing home — the 80- and 90-year-olds in the nursing home are the mirror of your future, that's what will happen to us.

Suppose today you're already 80 (with attainment), chanting sūtras, meditating, time's up, goodbye — how blissful.The children are gone, no one wants to deal with you, the sanitation department will come handle it, haul you off for the barbecue (cremation), and your (dharmakāya) already left long ago, nothing to bother anyone with.Just that simple.

Awareness — see clearly, think clearly, oh so this is how it is!The mind no longer gets lost.

Realization — see to the end, think it through, oh so it shouldn't be this way!The mind no longer gets stirred up.

3.The memories of past lives and this life, it turns out, are the script of a continuing role └ How to rewrite the storyline of past lives and this life