You may not not have been born in Buddhist country or to a Buddhist family, you may not wear robes or shave your head, you may eat meat and idolize Eminem and Paris Hilton. That doesn’t mean you can’t be a Buddhist.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book What Makes You Not a Buddhist

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• The habit of self
• Pride and pity
• Emotionally not possible
• Change is inevitable
• Beyond nonviolence and meditation
• Eventually we are disappointed
• Like a child at the cinema
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• The impossible is possible
• The real source of fear is not knowing
• Happily ever after
• Like moths to the flame
• Shielding ourselves and others from the truth
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• Driven by ambitions