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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• The three aspects of diligence
• The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
• Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
• Accepting short-term sufferings
• Cutting through subtler misconceptions
• I like suffering
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• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
• Meaningless activities without end
• No more than an empty echo
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• Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
• The importance of relative bodhicitta
• The children of the buddhas
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