all the buddhas, bodhisattvas, and enlightened beings are present at all moments to help us...
all we need to do to receive direct help is to ask... and yet asking is what we find hardest.
many of us, i feel, hardly know how to ask. sometimes it is because we are arrogant, sometimes because we are unwilling to seek help, sometimes because we are lazy, sometimes our minds are so busy with questions, distractions, and confusion that the simplicity of asking does not occur to us.
the turning point in any healing of alcoholics or drug addicts is when they it their illness and ask for aid. in one way or another, we are all addicts of samsara; the moment when help can come for us is when we it our addiction and simply ask.
sogyal rinpoche
the tibetan book of living and dying
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