Like the earth and the pervading elements,
Enduring like the sky itself endures,
For boundless multitudes of living beings,
May I be their ground and sustenance.

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 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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• Practice day and night
• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
• Meaningless activities without end
• No more than an empty echo
• Before it is too late
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• The children of the buddhas
• Giving and taking
• Seeing clearly how deceiving the ways of the world are
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• Neither discouragement nor pride