Because the practice of buddhadharma exists within our own state of being, our own world, it is very powerful. The teachings speak our own language, rather than some divine language, some language of transcendence.

People get excited when spiritual language is used as a foreign language that has nothing to do with them personally or with their everyday life. Everything is expressed in extraordinary language, and people try to relate to that as if they were eating a new dish or wearing a new costume. They think of it as something exotic or special, something they are not use to. Such indulgence is completely fake because it has nothing to do with their lifestyle or their state of mind.

From “The Charnel Ground” in The Sadhana of Mahamudra: Teachings on Devotion and Crazy Wisdom, page 108.

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