When you are actually making progress on the spiritual path, it can feel quite the opposite. We’re going along and it doesn’t necessarily feel good. It may feel wrong. But this is not a mundane path of relative progress based on causes and conditions, success and failure. We’re talking about the fundamental nature of this entire matrix of being. If you fundamentally see what this is, your decision-making situation based on progress completely collapses.

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