“The very first teaching I ever got that I can remember was at a dharmadhatu, one of the centers Rinpoche established. One of the older students was giving a talk, and he started by saying, 'if you're interested in these teaching then you're going to have to accept the fact that you're never going to get it all together.' It was a shocking statement to me. He said with a lot of clarity, 'you are never going to get it all together, you're never going to get your act together fully, completely. You're never going to get all the loose ends tied up.”