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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (Tibetan: དིལ་མགོ་མཁྱེན་བརྩེ་, Wylie: dil mgo mkhyen brtse) (c. 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a Vajrayana master, scholar, poet, teacher, and head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1987 to 1991.

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Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

Bases, Basis, Generosity, Love, True, True Generosity

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

Buddhism, Like, Rags, Robe, Suffering

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.

Ego, Enlightened, Freedom, Inspire, Today, Vanquish

Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

Allowing, Disappear, Feelings, Led, Letters, Water

To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.

Freedom, Happiness, Harm, Inspire, Source, Wish

The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.

Countryside, Doe, Mind, Thoughts, Towns, Traveller

It is our mind, and that alone, that chains us or sets us free.

Alone, Chains, Free, Mind

A beautiful country is a dream-like illusion. It is senseless to cling to it. Unless the inner forces of negative emotions are conquered, strife with outer enemies will never end.

Beautiful, Country, Dream, Illusion, Senseless

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Art, Breathing, Simplicity, Sitting

We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.

Desire, Mindfulness, Pride, Under, Unfailing

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.

Death, Dreamlike, Impermanent, Old, Old Friends, World

. . . with the power of compassion there is nothing that cannot be accomplished.

Accomplished, Compassion, Freedom, Inspire, Nothing

Sentient beings, self and others, enemies and dear ones-all are made by thoughts. It is like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When we think that the rope is a snake, we are scared, but once we see that we are looking at a rope, our fear dissipates. We have been deluded by our thoughts. Likewise, mentally fabricating self and others, we generate attachment and aversion.

Attachment, Buddhist, Enemies, Fear, See, Thinking

To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path. If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly, it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.

Compassion, Full, Hurt, Opportunity, Person, Rare

Once you have the View, although the delusory perceptions of samsara may arise in your mind, you will be like the sky; when a rainbow appears in front of it, it’s not particularly flattered, and when the clouds appear, it’s not particularly disappointed either. There is a deep sense of contentment. You chuckle from inside as you see the facade of samsara and nirvana; the View will keep you constantly amused, with a little inner smile bubbling away all the time.

Bubbling, Clouds, Disappointed, See, Sky, Views

To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

Compassion, Creatures, Meditate, Mind, Years

Examine the nature of hatred; you will find that it is no more than a thought. When you see it as it is, it will dissolve like a cloud in the sky.

Cloud, Clouds, Examine, Hatred, Like, Sky

Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.

Blessing, Essence, Everything, Happen, Prayer, Untied

Spending your time with true spiritual friends will fill you with love for all beings and help you to see how negative attachment and hatred are. Being with such friends, and following their example, will naturally imbue you with their good qualities, just as all the birds flying around a golden mountain are bathed in its golden radiance.

Attachment, Birds, Hatred, Help, Mountain, Spiritual

Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth is simply there. Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

Bonfire, Difficult Situations, Encounter, Living, Strong, Wind

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