We’ve been diplomatic for countless lives, always trying to avoid confrontation, never meeting our problems face to face.

My approach is to expose your ego so that you can see it for what it is. Therefore, I try to provoke your ego. There’s nothing diplomatic about this tactic. We’ve been diplomatic for countless lives, always trying to avoid confrontation, never meeting our problems face to face. That’s not my style. I like to meet problems head on, and that’s what I want you to do, too.

— Lama Yeshe

From Questions and Answers in Ego, Attachment and Liberation

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