Think from time to time of all the defects of samsara;
People of Tingri, that will make your faith become much clearer.

Padampa Sangye

from the book The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

translated by Padmakara Translation Group


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• Dreamlike obsessions
• The right moment is now
• The union of clarity and emptiness
• Right here beside you
• Like the events in a dream
• Don’t go on following the past
• You will have to go
• The faults within
• The choice is clear
• When you reach the threshold of death
• Have you prepared yourselves a boat
• Putting down the heavy burden once and for all
• The freedom to practice the Dharma
• Free of being caught by anything at all
• Abandon negative friendships
• Being near a spiritual teacher
• Three essential points
• Flying off into the bardo
• Happiness and suffering
• Rather than being trapped by your perceptions