What is most important is to use one’s study of dharma texts to bring oneself closer to the dharma itself. This is something that each person must do for themselves, and it is what I am concentrating on, what I am putting my main effort into. First, you feel that there is some gap between yourself and the dharma. Then you strive to make that gap smaller, to bring yourself nearer and nearer to dharma.

17th Karmapa

source: http://www.thebuddhadharma.com/web-archive/2008/6/1/on-becoming-karmapa.html


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