Everything depends on your intention. All the time, therefore, check your attitude and motivation. As Patrul Rinpoche said, everyone wants happiness, but the true way to reach perfect happiness is to bring happiness to others.
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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- Impermanence dawning in your mind
- A practice based on your mind
- The three aspects of diligence
- Opportunity
- The children of the buddhas
- I like suffering
- The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
- Meaningless activities without end
- The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
- Nothing to be grasped
- No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
- Start observing your mind
- 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