Sometimes, visualize that your heart is a brilliant ball of light. As you breathe out, it radiates rays of white light in all directions, carrying your happiness to all beings. As you breathe in, their suffering, negativity and afflictions come towards you in the form of dense, black light, which is absorbed in your heart and disappears in its brilliant white light without a trace, relieving all beings of their pain and sorrow.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
Read a random quote or see all quotes by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
Further quotes from the book The Heart of Compassion:
- Two types of friends
- Practice day and night
- Seeing clearly how deceiving the ways of the world are
- Cutting through subtler misconceptions
- Protecting ourselves from future suffering
- Just projections of the mind
- Impermanence dawning in your mind
- A practice based on your mind
- The three aspects of diligence
- Opportunity
- The children of the buddhas
- I like suffering
- The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
- Meaningless activities without end
- The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
- Nothing to be grasped
- No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
- Start observing your mind
- Before it is too late
- Sealing your merit with authentic dedication