Lack of humor comes from a deadly serious attitude. If you are not meditating properly, sitting still and upright, you think there will be someone standing behind you with a sharp sword, just about to strike. This is the self-consciousness of watching yourself. Actually it is not Big Brother who is watching; it is Big Me! Another aspect of me is watching me, behind me, just about to strike, just about to pinpoint my failure. There is no joy in this approach, no sense of humor at all.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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• Tricky ego
• Dissatisfaction
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• Mundane action
• Opening without demand
• The pain of exposing ourselves
• The truth of the spiritual path
• Pleasure and Pain
• The origin of suffering
• Just do what you do
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