The Buddhist tradition teaches the truth of impermanence, or the transitory nature of things. The past is gone and the future has not yet happened, so we work with what is here – the present situation. This actually helps us not to categorize or theorize. A fresh, living situation is taking place all the time, on the spot. This noncategorical  approach comes from being fully here, rather than trying to reconnect with past events. We don’t have to look back to the past in order to see what people are made out of. Human beings speak for themselves, on the spot.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology

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• Just open space
• The importance of patience
• Glimpse of Enlightenment
• Tuning in to life
• The freshness of not rebuilding
• Path
• These situations are the scriptures
• Sanity on the spot
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