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‘Our separate self is a spurious reality, which can maintain itself only by finding supports, or props, on which to lean, or rely. This tendency is rooted in the very fibres of our being. The kind of mental life which springs from ignorance seeks for ever to build a fictitious security on what is in fact quite unstable and untrustworthy.’

[regarding the Diamond Sutra teachings]...’circumstances seem to be rather unpropitious just now for the proclamation of such sublime wisdom. In the present period of history we find ourselves in one of the worst possible cosmic ages, with Buddhism in full decline, and the people everywhere singularly obtuse about matters spiritual, and incredibly dim-witted when confronted with the wisdom of the sages.’