We exhaust ourselves in three ways: 

We create fabrications like mental concepts. 

We exert a lot of effort. 

We create many objects or targets in our minds.

 These are the three things that really tire us.

 It is like an insect caught in a spider’s web:

 the more agitated it becomes, 

the more tangled it gets in the web. 

This creates real suffering, real torment for the mind.

 

-Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche -