Always take the lowest place. Wear simple clothes. Help other beings as much as you can. In everything you do, simply work at developing love and compassion until they have become a fundamental part of you.

Patrul Rinpoche

from the book Words of My Perfect Teacher

translated by Padmakara Translation Group


Read a random quote or see all quotes by Patrul Rinpoche.

Further quotes from the book Words of My Perfect Teacher:

• Motivated by ordinary concerns
• Even the smallest amounts of merit
• Actions arising from anger
• Compassion
• The Six Paramitas
• Impermanence is everywhere
• At your feet I bow
• Aspiration for renunciation
• Peerless Teacher, at your feet I bow
• The result of learning, contemplation, and meditation
• Bright moon
• May our minds mingle with the Dharma
• The Three Defects when listening to the Dharma
• May we realize the natural state
• Diligence
• Arousing Bodhicitta
• No Life Guarantee
• Remembering impermanence
• The need to follow a spiritual teacher
• Transforming obstacles into favorable circumstances