With genuine love and compassion, you just be what you are. If you can be what you are, external situations will become as they are, automatically. Then you can communicate directly and accurately. This is a balanced way of openness and communication, which automatically allows tremendous space, room for creative development, space in which to dance and exchange. The fundamental characteristic of true compassion is pure and fearless openness without territorial limitations.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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• The truth of the spiritual path
• Pleasure and Pain
• The origin of suffering
• Just do what you do
• Silcence
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• Tricky ego
• Dissatisfaction
• Soil good enough to cultivate
• Mundane action
• Merely discovered
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• Being a grain of sand
• The condition of openness
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• Relating with people
• Give up the paranoia