Spending all your life trying to achieve ordinary worldly goals is like trying to net fish in a dry riverbed. Clearly understanding this, make a firm decision not to allow your life to pursue such a useless course.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones
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- Mind filled with faith
- The spear of mindfulness
- This is very shortsighted
- The shadow of our actions
- Cause and effect
- The only way to obtain lasting happiness
- At the time of death
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- Mastery of the mind
- A lump of earth
- Following the view
- Seeing the truth of the teaching
- The intention to benefit others
- The gift of the Dharma
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- Remember death
- No greater virtue