Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

"... so it is not a matter of building up the awakened state of mind, but rather of burning out the confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product, dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which us created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be the possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanenent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it".

- Chögyam Trungpa

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