Some people spend all their energy, and even risk their lives to achieve fame. Fame and notoriety are both no more than an empty echo. Your reputation is an alluring mirage that can easily lead you astray. Discard it without a second thought, like the snort you blow from your nose.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
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- Nothing to be grasped
- No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
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- Before it is too late
- Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
- Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
- Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
- Giving and taking
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- The reason you are wandering in samsara
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- Powerful sources of help
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- Accepting short-term sufferings
- Phenomena adorn emptiness
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