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Meditation practice ... has nothing to do with achieving perfection, achieving some absolute state or other. It is purely getting into what we are, really examining our actual psychological process without being ashamed of it.

— Chögyam Trungpa

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Even if our state of being is disgusting we should look into it. It is beautiful to see it.

Meditation is a way of scientifically looking at our basic situation and seeing what is important in dealing with it.

Unless we are able to make friends with outselves, there is no hope at all. If we abandon ourselves as hopeless, as villains, then there is no steppingstone.

The idea is not to regard the spiritual path as something very luxurious and pleasurable but to see it as just facing the facts of life.

Our vast collections of knowledge and experience are just part of ego’s display, part of the grandiose quality of ego. We display them to the world and, in so doing, reassure ourselves that we exist, safe and secure, as “spiritual” people.

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