Were we to offer a hundred valuable things accumulated through wrong livelihood,
Based on conducting business, taking interest, deception and so on.
We might attempt to be virtuous, but instead give rise to the eight worldly dharmas.
‘To meditate on renunciation’ is my heart advice.

Longchenpa

Thirty Pieces of Heart Advice

translated by Daniela Hartmann


source: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/longchen-rabjam/30-stanzas-of-advice


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