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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• Cutting through subtler misconceptions
• I like suffering
• Practice day and night
• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
• No more than an empty echo
• 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
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• The reason you are wandering in samsara
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