You won’t accomplish
Both the Dharma and the aims of this ordinary life
If that is your wish,
No doubt you’re deceiving yourself.
There is no greater obstacle to Dharma practice
Than to be obsessed by the achievements of this life.
Gyelse Tokme Zangpo
quoted in the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
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- The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- Powerful sources of help
- Two types of friends
- The reason you are wandering in samsara
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- Nothing to be grasped
- A practice based on your mind
- Impermanence dawning in your mind
- Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
- Just projections of the mind
- Protecting ourselves from future suffering
- The only thing that is really worth doing
- The three aspects of diligence
- The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
- Accepting short-term sufferings