You might spend your whole life pursuing only food and clothes,
With great effort and without regard for suffering or harmful deeds,
But when you die you can’t take even a single thing — consider this well.

Chatral Rinpoche

from the book Compassionate Action

translated by Adam Pearcey


source: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/words-advice


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• Taking advantage of our human existence
• Relying on the instructions of your own qualified teacher
• Use it well
• Not enjoying meat or alcohol
• The best form of austerity
• View and conduct
• There is nothing more to it than that
• All you need
• No real happiness
• Act accordingly
• By then it’s too late!
• Failing to let go of ordinary concerns
• A disciplined mind
• Your own true enemies
• Gaining the riches of a Dharma practitioner
• Three kinds of dharma practitioners
• The path of nonviolence
• Our responsibility