our effort in our practice

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Our-- our effort in our practice is quite different effort you make in our usual life. This point should be very clear for you, or else, you know, you-- your practice doesn't work. And spiritual effort is, at the same time, is very poisonous for us. Spiritual attainment is very, you know-- sometime like a-- like-- will result ecstasy or sometime will result arrogance. And in this kind of, you know, spiritual arrogance or ecstasy is worse than materialistic arrogance, you know. You can easily [be] ... Read Transcript (this version is updated and corrected at times. Any other transcripts below are not).


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