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Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply
the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
Picture yourself and a hundred billion of your besties all launching outward from ball Earth at the same time in the same direction. You all start out in a big clump, but as paths diverge with time and distance, your clump thins out until you find yourself alone in your own private universe. You can’t see anyone anymore, and you’ll never see anyone again. As scary, dark and lonely as that may sound (you won’t think so when you’re out there), it’s what you were born to do. This is the fulfillment of your human potential; the full expansion, expression and exploration of your unique spiritual code as determined by the unique crystalline blemish on your prism of self – the only thing that sets you apart from those other hundred billion, and the closest thing you have to a soul.
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The bad news is you're falling through the air,
nothing to hang on to, no parachute.
The good news is, there's no ground.
Chögyam Trungpa (1939–1987) was a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author who helped introduce Tibetan Buddhism to the West. Recognized as the eleventh Trungpa tulku, he fled Tibet in 1959, studied at Oxford, and later taught in North America. He founded Naropa University and developed the secular Shambhala Training program. Known for both his profound teachings and his controversial personal conduct, he wrote influential works such as Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism and Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior.