All the ideas we have about the awakening actually are distortions about what it really is. So we really need to let go of not only all of our ideas of ourself, but all of our ideas about spiritual realization, enlightenment, spiritual awakening. All of those need to be let go of as well, so that we can find out what's the truth, what's the reality of what we are.


The Basic Teachings - Part 1: Principles of the Teaching (2009)


All the ideas we have about the awakening actually are distortions about what it really is. So we really need to let go of not only all of our ideas...

All the ideas we have about the awakening actually are distortions about what it really is. So we really need to let go of not only all of our ideas...

All the ideas we have about the awakening actually are distortions about what it really is. So we really need to let go of not only all of our ideas...

All the ideas we have about the awakening actually are distortions about what it really is. So we really need to let go of not only all of our ideas...