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The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
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for these teachings is immeasurable. It attracts even those who do not know the ONE Awareness and thus do not know themselves.
Such people aimlessly drift throughout all regions of the world of manifestations, continuously assume new forms and suffer and worry.
As long as insight into the Great Awareness is lacking, such is the result.
So impressed are they by their own suffering, so overpowered, that they lack all will to give direction to their life.
And even if they long to know the Great Awareness, their lack of will to steer their life prevents this very insight.
[The Consequences of Self-Inflicted Asceticism ]
Others follow faiths and practices that severely restrict their lives. Fascinated by such self-imposed, intoxicating yearning, they block all inner capacity for perceiving the Clear Light.
They allow such self-inflicted blockages to overwhelm their mind and thus are unable to even recognize a widening of their perception.
The Middle Path (the simple path Buddha proclaimed) certainly describes the true mechanisms of the manifested world and even The Unmanifested, yet aimless renunciation and clinging to rigid religious ceremonies obscure all deeper insight and real comprehension.
Such attitudes likewise obscure what course of action leads to enlightenment.
