Clarity and emptiness are inseparably united in the true nature of mind, which is beyond all concepts of existence and non-existence.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

translated by Padmakara Translation Group


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• The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
• Meaningless activities without end
• Nothing to be grasped
• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
• Start observing your mind
• Before it is too late
• Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
• Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
• No more than an empty echo
• Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
• Giving and taking
• Conduct
• The only thing that is really worth doing
• The reason you are wandering in samsara
• Neither discouragement nor pride
• Powerful sources of help
• The importance of relative bodhicitta
• Accepting short-term sufferings
• Phenomena adorn emptiness
• Practice day and night