Thoughts come and go like a thief in an empty house –
People of Tangri, in fact there is nothing to be gained or lost.
Padampa Sangye
quoted in the book The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
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Further quotes from the book The Hundred Verses of Advice:
- Right here beside you
- Like the events in a dream
- Don’t go on following the past
- You will have to go
- The faults within
- The choice is clear
- When you reach the threshold of death
- Have you prepared yourselves a boat
- Putting down the heavy burden once and for all
- The freedom to practice the Dharma
- Free of being caught by anything at all
- Abandon negative friendships
- Being near a spiritual teacher
- Three essential points
- Flying off into the bardo
- Happiness and suffering
- Rather than being trapped by your perceptions
- Contemplating the defects of samsara
- Dwell in the simplicity of the present moment
- Love and compassion for all