Without being concentrated by a magnifying glass, dry grass cannot be set alight by the rays of the sun, even though they bathe the whole earth evenly in their warmth. In the same way, it is only when focussed through the magnifying glass of your faith and devotion that the all-pervading warm rays of the buddhas’ compassion can make blessings blaze up in your being, like dry grass on fire.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
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- Before it is too late
- Sealing your merit with authentic dedication
- Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
- No more than an empty echo
- Giving and taking
- Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
- Conduct
- The only thing that is really worth doing
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- The reason you are wandering in samsara
- The importance of relative bodhicitta
- Powerful sources of help
- Accepting short-term sufferings
- Phenomena adorn emptiness
- Two types of friends
- Practice day and night
- Seeing clearly how deceiving the ways of the world are
- Cutting through subtler misconceptions
- Protecting ourselves from future suffering
- Just projections of the mind