Since all virtuous thoughts and actions motivated by clinging to a concrete reality or to a self-cherishing attitude are like poisonous food, give them up. Learn not to cling, but to know the phantomlike nature of experience.

Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye

from the book The Great Path of Awakening

translated by Ken McLeod


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