No intelligence, no power, no wealth or strength can help someone without diligence – he is like a boatman whose boat has everything but oars.
Jigme Lingpa
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Further quotes from the book Words of My Perfect Teacher :
- May we realize the natural state
- Bright moon
- May our minds mingle with the Dharma
- Aspiration for renunciation
- The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation
- The Three Defects when listening to the Dharma
- Even the smallest amounts of merit
- Motivated by ordinary concerns
- Arousing Bodhicitta
- At your feet I bow
- Actions arising from anger
- Discovering Dharma
- Compassion
- Peerless Teacher, at your feet I bow
- The Six Paramitas
- Impermanence is everywhere
- No Life Guarantee
- Remembering impermanence
- The need to follow a spiritual teacher