When the degenerate age of this aeon arrives,
people are their own deceivers, their own bad counsel,
the makers of their own stupidity, lying to and fooling themselves.
How sad that these people have human forms but possess no more sense than an ox!

Padmasambhava

from the book Advice from the Lotus-Born

translated by Erik Pema Kunsang


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