By Pabongka Rinpoche from his commentary on Je Tsongkapa's "Principles of Buddhism" The fact that you and I, right now, never do any spiritual practice - no, worse, the fact that we try and what we do is anything but spiritual practice - is all because of our desire for this life. The border that seperates spiritual practice from what is not, is this attitude of having given up on this life. Practice, in the form of reciting some lines, and the world, may somewhere meet; but there is no way that practice in the form of giving up on this life will ever meet the world, in the form of happily participating in this life. There is no way you can keep the world, and still keep your practice.