The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life

death—

directing it toward our self-importance.

So having this incentive, we tend to cling to our view of emptiness in subtle ways. When we have a glimpse of emptiness, we try to hold on to it and make that experience continue.

by dak che dzin, self-importance.

It’s not that language is false or inherently problematic.

dedicating ourselves to bodhicitta, to tonglen, to stepping out of the small self and embracing the universal self?

By training ourselves to see these phenomena as dreams, we can stop being intimidated by our own mind.

Contemplating impermanence helps us have a simpler approach to life, in which we no longer create kingdoms in our minds.

“altruism.”