We follow a spiritual path because we want to defeat our emotions and attain enlightenment, and to achieve that goal we need discipline, guidance and the courage to confront everything we have spent many lifetimes trying to avoid.

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices

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• Being able to start practicing right away
• Avoid being distracted
• Without the personal advice of Buddha
• Mara’s five arrows
• Filtered perception
• Wishing happiness for those who have hurt you
• Very little time left for practice
• Dealing with Emotions
• Remain alone and practise the dharma
• Opposite direction to dharma
• Sources of our inspiration
• Practise whichever method works for you
• Dawn of wisdom
• Intention to benefit all sentient beings
• Sadness
• The decision to follow a spiritual path
• Absolutely nothing genuinely works
• Right intention
• As they truly are
• Merely the product of your own perception