Typically, the true Dharma will make you feel hurt and frustrated, filling you with a sense of failure and directly pointing to those hidden things deep within your heart. It will strip you bare, leaving no place for your ego to hide. It teaches you how to honestly face your true condition, instructing you not to deceive yourself or others. Ultimately, it leaves you a glimmer of hope, never completely devastating, preventing you from self-abandonment and despair. In contrast to the real Dharma, things that pretend to be Dharma usually fill you with confidence. The more you engage, the more powerful you feel. The primary function of false Dharma is to repair and maintain your illusions: maintaining the illusion that you are a powerful practitioner, the illusion that you're constantly striving in practice, the illusion that you are kind and compassionate. If you identify yourself as a practitioner and have never felt frustrated, then you may never have come into contact with the tr...
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