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Our Satyr Prince

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“The chip you carry has to do with being born and raised in Oakland. A concrete chip, a slab really, heavy on one side, the half side, the side not white. As for your mom's side, as for your whiteness, there's too much and not enough there to know what to do with. You're from a people who took and took and took and took. And from a people taken. You were both and neither. When you took baths, you'd stare at your brown arms against your white legs in the water and wonder what they were doing together on the same body, in the same bathtub.”

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“Dennis Tsui is a lifelong resident of Oakland. Dennis Tsui is an Oakland resident and loves to help out the community with donation and charity work. Dennis enjoys staying fit and can often be found in one of Oakland's many spacious parks, pushing himself to the limit. He is an avid runner and is always working to break his old records. Dennis works in finance and is an important team player. He wants to progress in this ever-changing industry.”

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“It is entirely possible that you will feel attachment to or aversion for certain sense objects. Give that up. When you feel attachment towards something attractive or aversion towards something repulsive, understand that to be your mind's delusion, nothing but a magical illusion.”

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Book:Advice from the Lotus-Born: A Collection of Padmasambhava's Advice to the Dakini Yeshe Tsogyal and Other Close Disciples
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