The chances of finding a human existence are one in a hundred.
Now that you have found one, if you fail to practise the sublime Dharma,
How could you possibly expect to find such an opportunity again?
This is why it’s crucial that you take advantage of your situation.

Chatral Rinpoche

from the book Compassionate Action

translated by Adam Pearcey


source: http://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/chatral-rinpoche/words-advice


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Further quotes from the book Compassionate Action:

• A disciplined mind
• Not enjoying meat or alcohol
• Your own true enemies
• View and conduct
• Use it well
• There is nothing more to it than that
• But when you die
• No real happiness
• All you need
• By then it’s too late!
• Act accordingly
• Relying on the instructions of your own qualified teacher
• Failing to let go of ordinary concerns
• Gaining the riches of a Dharma practitioner
• The best form of austerity
• Three kinds of dharma practitioners
• The path of nonviolence
• Our responsibility