Happiness and suffering, through a mechanism like the sounding of a lute’s body and strings,
People of Tingri, are produced when actions are combined with necessary conditions.
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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- Putting down the heavy burden once and for all
- Being near a spiritual teacher
- The union of clarity and emptiness
- Three essential points
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- The mind is free of any true reality
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- Right here beside you
- Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment
- Dreamlike obsessions
- Free of being caught by anything at all
- Start that very day
- Without settling anywhere
- Have you prepared yourselves a boat
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- Nothing to be gained or lost