With ignorance comes attachment to all that is pleasant to the ego as well as hatred and repulsion for all that is unpleasant. In that way the three poisons — ignorance, attachment, and hatred — come into being. Under the influence of these three poisons, the mind becomes like a servant running here and there. This is how the suffering of samsara is built up. It all derives from a lack of discernment and a distorted perception of the nature of phenomena.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book Pith Instructions: Selected Teachings and Poems

Read a random quote or see all quotes by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Further quotes from the book Pith Instructions:

• No modification
• Guidance of a qualified teacher
• Emptiness and the law of cause and effect
• The body does not truly exist
• The dawn of naked wisdom
• Eating tasty but poisonous plants
• Clinging to the body