Look at the actual nature of harm itself: it is ungraspable. Like a drawing made on the water´s surface. When you truly experience that, resentment vanishes of its own accord. As soon as the fiery waves of thoughts subside, everything becomes like empty sky, which has nothing to gain and nothing to lose.
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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- The three aspects of diligence
- Opportunity
- The children of the buddhas
- I like suffering
- The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
- Meaningless activities without end
- The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
- Nothing to be grasped
- No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
- Start observing your mind
- Before it is too late
- Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
- Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
- No more than an empty echo
- Giving and taking
- Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
- Conduct
- The only thing that is really worth doing
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- The reason you are wandering in samsara