Advanced ideas and descriptions of spiritual experiences, only exploit the weaker aspects of human nature, our expectations and desires to see and hear something colorful, something extraordinary. If we begin our study with these dreams of extraordinary, "enlightening" and dramatic experiences, then we will build up our expectations and preconceptions so that later, when we are actually working on the path, our minds will be occupied largely with what--will be rather than with what--IS.
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, CUTTING THROUGH SPIRITUAL MATERIALISM
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