If you spend the present meaninglessly and leave with empty hands,
People of Tingri, a human life in the future will be very hard to find.

Padampa Sangye
from the book The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most
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- Dreamlike obsessions
- Free of being caught by anything at all
- Start that very day
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- Love and compassion for all
- The most profound spiritual practice
- Nothing to be gained or lost
- There is never any time to spare
- Flying off into the bardo
- When you reach the threshold of death
- The faults within
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