At every stage of practice a price has to be paid for clarity. The price is the loss of an illusion. - Ken McLeod

The fundamental effort in Buddhist practice is to develop a sufficient capacity in attention so that you can experience your own non-existence.

What's the dominant emotion associated with purity? Anger. The most aggressive people are the ones who insist on being utterly pure. It's responsible for countless wars at all levels of society. Far better to have no aspiration, no hope and relate to things just as they are.

Study void. Void is what makes everything possible. If there is no emptiness or open space in your life then very very few things are possible.