When you commit yourself to the bodhisattva path, the path of helping others, you feel as if you have done it before and you have been doing it all along. It is like living up to your inheritance, or taking over your parents’ business. You feel that there is something quite natural and right about it.

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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• Seeing your confusion
• To work for others, you need composure
• Basic decency
• Brush Your Teeth with Egolessness
• Saddles, chairs, and green grass
• Putting others first
• An immense sense of freedom
• Facing the facts of life
• The sense of workability
• Who is speaking
• Love is utterly kind
• Relative truth
• A taste of enlightenment
• Just keep opening and unfolding
• Passionlessness
• Compassion and egolessness go hand in hand
• The utterly visionary quality of love
• Great Compassion is the Source of Great Genuineness