Great compassion is the source of great genuineness in the practitioner. Usually we want to cheat, to deceive, and twist things for our own sake. We distrust something or other, and feel that the situation is not quite right, so we begin to cheat or become evasive. We are trying to avoid something. But in the case of great compassion, there is no attempt to avoid anything because everything is clear. Everything is completely seen through.

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
• Basic decency
• 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