Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience.

Tilopa

quoted in the book Teachers of Wisdom

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• Preparing food
• Scattering stars like dust
• No more questions
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• Blaming others