You may possess the power and might of a world ruler, but unless you gain mastery over your own mind, when the time of death arrives you still haven’t attained the power of freedom. So gain mastery over your mind!

Padmasambhava

from the book Advice from the Lotus-Born

translated by Erik Pema Kunsang


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