If a person can really relate to the simplicity of the practice of meditation, then automatically there is an absence of aggression. Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, be friends with yourself. Then thoughts, emotions, whatever occurs in the mind, constantly accentuate the act of making friends with yourself.

Chögyam Trungpa

from the book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

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• Silcence
• Opening without demand
• Soil good enough to cultivate
• Just do what you do
• Mundane action
• The pain of exposing ourselves
• Tricky ego
• The truth of the spiritual path
• Letting be
• The origin of suffering
• Dissatisfaction
• Pleasure and Pain
• 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