If you have awareness in whatever you do, you always have a sense of basic decency. You do not cheat. You do not do things just because they are traditional, and you don’t just do something this year simply because you did it last year. You always try to practice your discipline as genuinely and honestly as possible — to the point where the honesty and genuineness begin to hurt.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion: The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma, Volume Two

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• Who is speaking
• Love is utterly kind
• A taste of enlightenment
• Living up to your inheritance
• Seeing your confusion
• To work for others, you need composure
• Brush Your Teeth with Egolessness
• Relative truth
• An immense sense of freedom
• Saddles, chairs, and green grass
• Facing the facts of life
• The sense of workability
• Just keep opening and unfolding
• Passionlessness
• Compassion and egolessness go hand in hand
• The utterly visionary quality of love
• Great Compassion is the Source of Great Genuineness