Tricycle Daily Dharma June 18, 2013

Respecting the Practice When people use spiritual practice to try to compensate for feelings of alienation and low self-esteem, they corrupt the true nature of spiritual practice. Instead of loosening the manipulative ego that tries to control its experience, they strengthen it, and their spiritual practice remains unintegrated with the rest of their life. - John Welwood, “The Psychology of Awakening”