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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• Suitable vessels
• Superficial dharma practice
• Two great sources of fear in samsara
• All perceptions are similar to a dream
• No other way
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• Not outside yourself
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• Free from the extreme of existence and that of nonexistence
• Like two expressions on the same face
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• Just as space
• Not fabricated, never stained
• Examine your actions very closely
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