When You Realize the Joke, You Laugh - Lama Dawa's Commentary

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"Since everything is but an apparition, perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter."
-Longchen Rabjung, in the precious treasury of the basic space of phenomena

Lama Dawa Zangpo’s Commentary:
Longchen Rabjung, or Longchampa, as he is known, was a famous and very important Tibetan scholar, teacher, master. In this well-known quote, he's basically saying let go of your concerns and worries. Let it all go. Relax. Everything is OK as it is. And that just solves everything. There's no problem. Very interesting perspective, very profound and actually very true. So he is not saying just that everything doesn't matter, so we should just laugh. And not take anything seriously. That's not really what he's saying here, but he is saying that in the view or actual realization of the ultimate truth of things, what we call the emptiness of things, that in that perspective everything is just fine as it is, and we don't have to get caught up or involved, and we can drop all of our concerns and worries and suffering, and then there's nothing left but joy.

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