If we do practice the dharma now, so as to protect ourselves from future suffering, then when we die, although we will still have to face suffering, if we have no regrets, are confident in our practice and in the dharma, and put our trust in the Three Jewels, we can be confident that we will not go to the three lower realms, because we will not be attached to samsara.

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 magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
• Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
• Accepting short-term sufferings
• Cutting through subtler misconceptions
• I like suffering
• Practice day and night
• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
• Meaningless activities without end
• No more than an empty echo
• Before it is too late
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• Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
• The importance of relative bodhicitta
• The children of the buddhas
• Giving and taking
• Seeing clearly how deceiving the ways of the world are
• The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
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