We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. … - Tenzin Palmo

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Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

Tenzin Palmo

We try to be present when we are drinking our tea, which isn't as easy as it sounds. It's very easy to think, right now I'm going to be really present while I'm drinking my tea, here I am drinking my tea, and I'm so present, look this is easy, I am here drinking my tea and I know I'm drinking my tea blah blah blah blah. . . right? And the one place where the mind is not, is here. It's just thinking about being here.

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