Someone with eye disease might see all kinds of objects apparently floating in the sky -lights, lines, and spots – when in truth there is nothing there. Similarly, because we have the disease of believing in an ‘I’, we see that ‘I’ as an inherently existing entity.
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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Further quotes from the book The Heart of Compassion:
- The three aspects of diligence
- The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
- Protecting ourselves from future suffering
- Accepting short-term sufferings
- Cutting through subtler misconceptions
- I like suffering
- Meaningless activities without end
- Practice day and night
- No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
- Start observing your mind
- No more than an empty echo
- Before it is too late
- 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
- Powerful sources of help