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Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (1910-1991) (Nepal, Shechen monastery, 1988)
Thought of the week
We need to be born a human being, as this is the only state of existence in which there is enough suffering to give us an acute desire to be free from samsara, yet not so much suffering that we no longer have the opportunity to free ourselves through the practice of Dharma. If we do not make use of the precious opportunity of a human existence, we cannot but go downward, like a stone rolling down a hill.
Adapted from The Excellent Path of Enlightenment, Snow Lion 1996.
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Teachings on compassion, par Shabkar Tsok Druk Rangdrol (1781-1851)
Now I have some heart-advice to give you: a sky needs a sun, a mother needs a child, and a bird needs two wings. Likewise, emptiness alone is not enough. You need to have great compassion for all beings who have not realized this emptiness ? enemies, friends, and strangers. You need to have compassion that makes no distinctions between good and bad. You must understand that compassion arises through meditation, not simply from waiting, thinking that it may come forth, by itself, from emptiness.
The same number of years you spent meditating on emptiness, you should now spend meditating day...