“We all enter the spiritual path as ego-based beings, and as such we have ego-based hopes and fears. Practice is virtually never what we expect. We feel like we’ve got it all wrong, thinking, “The more I meditate the worse I become.” My teacher, Genden Rinpoche, always, responded to this by saying , “When you … Continue reading Our Moral Compass: Our Shortcomings Are The Dawn Of Our Qualities