Once you understand that real dharma practice is not just about formal sitting meditation, but a never-ending confrontation with and opposition to pride and ego, as well as a lesson in how to accept change, you will be able to start practicing right away.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

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• Filtered perception
• Sources of our inspiration
• Rip that ego apart
• Relative and absolute truth
• It’s all a matter of motivation
• The decision to follow a spiritual path
• Three higher trainings
• Opposite direction to dharma
• No substitute for being guided by a guru
• Maintaining a strong grip on the habits
• Merely the product of your own perception
• Dharma is not a therapy
• Our fundamental problem
• Sadness
• Mara’s five arrows
• Nothing genuinely works in samsara
• Mind-made illusions
• It cannot be fixed
• Very little time left for practice