In truth, if you cannot tame your own mind, what else is there to tame? What is the use of doing many other practices? The aim of the whole Buddhist path, both Basic and the Great Vehicles, is to tame and understand your mind.
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
- 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
- Protecting ourselves from future 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
- Start observing your mind
- 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
- Neither discouragement nor pride