“This is what they call acting transcendently; with the overlooking of the three sectors of the act. That is to say when you give a gift, you don’t perceive yourself as the giver. You don’t perceive the gift as a gift. You don’t perceive the receiver as the receiver.

Something flows from this part of you to that part of you; and so in a way you have done it without perceiving yourself doing it. Without appropriating it; saying ‘Oh I’m so great I gave a gift.’ Or ‘Gee, was that too big a gift I gave?”, or ‘Gee, am I going to miss that myself later?’… all this kind of thing… which ruins the transcendence of any gift or any act.

This is the mind transformation teaching…”

— Robert Thurman, “The Jewel Tree of Tibet”