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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