What a waste of time it is to take so much care if this body, feeding it the most succulent dishes, dressing it in the most fashionable clothes, and trying to make it look younger than it really is. The body has no other destination than the cemetery where it will be burned, buried, or fed to the birds.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book Zurchungpa's Testament
translated by Padmakara Translation Group
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Further quotes from the book Zurchungpa's Testament:
- Not outside yourself
- The three higher trainings
- Perceiving everything in its natural purity
- Like two expressions on the same face
- No other way
- Just leave it like it is
- Free from the extreme of existence and that of nonexistence
- All perceptions are similar to a dream
- Complete absence of doubt
- Examine your actions very closely
- Not fabricated, never stained
- Projections of the mind
- Spontaneous devotion to your teacher
- Superficial dharma practice
- Just as space
- Recognizing awareness
- Nothing else than the projection of one’s own mind
- Suitable vessels
- The even state of all-pervading peace
- When true realization dawns in one’s mind