04/10/2025
Lama Yeshe ja avoin ❤️
“I want to open my heart, but how?”—this is the question. Opening has to do with realization; no realization, nothing opens. It doesn’t matter that you say, emotionally, “I’m open. I love you; you love me so much.” That doesn’t mean you’re open. We do that kind of thing, don’t we? “No matter how much I open myself up to you, you never open yourself up to me.” It’s a joke. It’s not true.
Well, perhaps it’s true in one sense, but actually, true openness implies space—your consciousness embracing some kind of wide totality. This experience of embracing totality itself becomes the solution, or antidote, to the narrow, fanatical, conceptualizing dualistic mind.
-Lama Yeshe
from *Realizing Universal Reality* lamayeshe.com/article/realizing-universal-reality
Image of Lama Yeshe at Istituto Lama Tzong Khapa, Pomaia, Italy, January 1983. Photo: Dennis Heslop.
