As in other Buddhist Tantric techniques, recommended preliminaries for these practices include developing skill at both calm-abiding (zhi gnas; śamatha) and insight meditation (lhag mthong; vipaśyanā). As in earlier Buddhist teachings, many Chöd dehadāna practices...

Nostalgia is an illness for those who haven’t realized that todayis tomorrow’s nostalgia.

and if you survive without reflecting, then you simply become an old degenerate.