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Our usual reaction is not to become curious about what’s happening, but just to blindly reach for something familiar that we associate with relief and then wonder why we stay dissatisfied. The radical approach of bodichita practice is to pay attention to what we do. Without judging it, we training, kindly acknowledging whatever is going on. Eventually, we might decide to stop hurting ourselves in the same old ways

This book should have a different title.

Egolessness, in simple terms, is having a flexible identity. Suffering can come from an attachment to an identity.

“Never underestimate the inclination to bolt when we hurt”