Tricycle Daily Dharma December 19, 2012

An Honest Look Simply doing good deeds, or even being a devoted meditator, doesn’t mean anything without the painful honesty that’s required to look at what we’re doing. We must take our heads out of the ground and look at all of the ways we get in our own way—fooling ourselves and obstructing the possibility of living a more open and genuine life. - Ezra Bayda, “The ‘Helper’ Syndrome”