I don’t like happiness, I like suffering:
If I am happy, the five poisons increase.
If I suffer, my past bad karma is exhausted.
I don’t value high positions, I like low ones.
If I am important, my pride and jealousy increase;
If I am lowly, I relax and my spiritual practice grows.
The lowest place is the seat of the saints of the past.

Patrul Rinpoche

quoted in the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

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• The three aspects of diligence
• The children of the buddhas
• Opportunity
• The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
• The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
• Meaningless activities without end
• Nothing to be grasped
• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
• Start observing your mind
• Before it is too late
• Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
• Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
• No more than an empty echo
• Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
• Giving and taking
• Conduct
• The only thing that is really worth doing
• The reason you are wandering in samsara
• Neither discouragement nor pride