If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humour of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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• Pleasure and Pain
• The origin of suffering
• Just do what you do
• Letting be
• Tricky ego
• Dissatisfaction
• Soil good enough to cultivate
• Mundane action
• Opening without demand
• The pain of exposing ourselves
• The truth of the spiritual path
• Merely discovered
• The totally demonic state of complete “Egohood”
• Self-deception creates a dream world
• Being a grain of sand
• The condition of openness
• Compassion
• Relating with people
• Give up the paranoia