Keep your perception pure, considering all that appears to be infinite purity. Then everything will inspire you to practice the dharma, and everything will be an illustration of the teachings.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
translated by Padmakara Translation Group
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- Before it is too late
- Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
- The importance of relative bodhicitta
- The children of the buddhas
- Giving and taking
- Seeing clearly how deceiving the ways of the world are
- The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- Powerful sources of help
- Two types of friends
- The reason you are wandering in samsara
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- Nothing to be grasped
- A practice based on your mind
- Protecting ourselves from future suffering
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