Never get angry, even with someone who has deliberately and maliciously harmed you. You should be grateful to such a person for helping you to purify past negative actions, to increase your determination to be free from samsara and to develop love and compassion.
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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- Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
- Conduct
- The only thing that is really worth doing
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- The reason you are wandering in samsara
- The importance of relative bodhicitta
- Powerful sources of help
- Accepting short-term sufferings
- Phenomena adorn emptiness
- 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