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