The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation should be a steady and real increase in the love and compassion of bodhicitta, together with a steady and real diminution of ego-clinging and negative thinking.

Patrul Rinpoche
from the book Words of My Perfect Teacher
translated by Padmakara Translation Group
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