My mother and I used to go to the garbage dump and search for precious metals and things to recycle. Once I stepped on a needle. Our house smelt of garbage. I was always hungry." Siddhi, 13

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Wow, Im at the end of my 8 day trip to Tibet. My heart is moved, filled with gratitude. What a magical land, what a beautiful people. Many things can be true at once, blessings and oppression. May we all be free.

Pt 2 that emptiness is expressed as radiant clarity, that there is a buddha-nature, a self-existing primordial wisdom that is uncompounded, and an absolute truth beyond the reach of the intellect.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche - The Heart of Compassion - Shambhala Publications

The third kind of patience is to have the deep, inner courage that it takes to be ready, out of compassion, to work over many aeons for the sake of beings, and to face without any fear the highest truths of the teachings - that ultimately all phenomena are totally empty by nature;

"I never knew hunger before. My parents died in a motorbike accident, my father took my mother for a birthday ride and a truck hit them. I was 13 years old and trying to care for my siblings. Then I joined Bodhicitta Foundation Girls home. . " - Jaya, 20

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Lots of wonderful things going on at Bodhicitta Nuns training centre Nagpur. After 15 years of renting we are building our own place.

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Mcleod Ganj/Dharamsala, seat of His Holines Dalai Lama in exile.

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A devil is anything that obstructs the achievement of freedom. Therefore, even loving and affectionate friends become devils re freedom. Most of all, there is no greater devil than this fixation to a self. Exert yourself at a skillful method to sever the devil of ego-fixation.
-Machig Lapdron

If you recognize the empty nature of thoughts at the very moment they arise, they will dissolve. Attachment and hatred will never be able to disturb the mind. Deluded emotions will collapse by themselves. No negative actions will be accumulated, so no suffering will follow."
～ Dilgo Khyentse