Marpa, a Tibeten mystic was once asked by one if his disciples how he feels now that he’s enlightened. Marpa replied, “Just as miserable as before!”. The disciple asked, “but how?” to which Marpa replied, “sometimes I like to have a taste of the world so i go back.”.

You see, Marpa’s quality has changed. Misery, happiness, they’re both clouds in the sky. Just because you one day learned that clouds were not the sky did not mean the clouds disappeared. When you can turn your awareness freely from the clouds to the infinite sky and back again, you are free.

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