We exhaust ourselves in three ways: We create fabrications like mental concepts. We exert a lot of effort. We create many objects or targets in our minds. These are the three things that really tire us. It is like an insect caught in a spider’s web: the more agitated it becomes, the more tangled it gets in the web. This creates real suffering, real torment for the mind.

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche

from the book Natural Great Perfection: Dzogchen Teachings And Vajra Songs

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