Dilgo Khyentse quotes

Welcome the view that the things which you think are wrecking your life - like your thoughts and emotions, or illness and death - are actually gifts for your transformation... Whether life presents us with a pleasant sound or an unpleasant sound, a pleasant smell or an unpleasant smell, a pleasant thought or an unpleasant thought, it's sheer delight because instead of identifying with the experience, we simply touch it and let it go. (Dilgo Khyentse)
As it is said: Go hundreds of miles away From places of dispute; Don't stay for an instant Where disturbing emotions prevail. View quote
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Many of us lead family lives. At most, the members of a family stay together for the duration of a lifetime, often much less. While that fleeting moment of being together still lasts, we should try to remain in perfect harmony with each other, while observing the Dharma as much as possible. Night and day, let us turn our minds toward goodness, love, and compassion. View quote
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Seeing the world with all the unspoiled simplicity of a young child, you are free from concepts of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, and no longer fall prey to conflicting tendencies driven by desire or repulsion. Why trouble yourself about all the ups and downs of daily life, like a child who delights in building a sand castle but cries when it collapses? To get what they want and be rid of what they dislike, look how people throw themselves into torments, like moths plunging into the flame of a lamp! Would it not be better to put down your heavy burden of dreamlike obsessions once and for all? View quote
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A beautiful object has no intrinsic quality that is good for the mind, nor an ugly object any intrinsic power to harm it. Beautiful and ugly are just projections of the mind. The ability to cause happiness or suffering is not a property of the outer object itself. For example, the sight of a particular individual can cause happiness to one person and suffering to another. It is the mind that attributes such qualities to the perceived object. View quote
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Don't follow after the object of hatred, look at the angry mind. Anger liberated by itself as it arises is mirrorlike wisdom. Don't chase after the object of pride, look at the grasping mind. Self-importance liberated as it arises is the wisdom of equanimity. Don't hanker after the object of desire, look at the craving mind. View quote
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Mindfulness should guide all your actions and your spiritual endeavors. Whatever you do, always apply three essential points: undertake the action with the intention of doing so for the good of all beings; execute it with perfect concentration, free of attachment to concepts of subject, object, and action; and, finally, dedicate the merit you have created to the enlightenment of all beings. View quote
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The buddha nature, or tathagatagarbha, is present in all beings, but is hidden by obscurations, in the same way that buried gold is hidden by the earth under which it lies. As you listen to, reflect, and meditate on the Dharma, all the inherent qualities of your buddha nature will be actualized. View quote
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It is important to become more and more clearly convinced that the only thing worth achieving is supreme enlightenment. View quote
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When buddhas look at samsara with the eyes of their omniscience, they do not see it as an enjoyable place. They are acutely aware of the sufferings of beings... and they see how senseless are the pointless, temporary goals that beings try so hard to attain. View quote
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Recitation of the mantra helps achieve perfection in the six practices from generosity to wisdom. The path of these six perfections is the path walked by all the Buddhas of the three times. What could then be more meaningful than to say the mantra and accomplish the six perfections?" (Dilgo Khyentse)
Devotion is the ring that allows the hook of the teacher's compassion to pull you out of the mire of samsara. View quote
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In my native land waves of attachment to friends and kin surge, Hatred for enemies rages like fire, The darkness of stupidity, not caring what to adopt or avoid, thickens - To abandon my native land is the practice of a bodhisattva. View quote
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There's no time, no time! There's no time to rest! When suddenly death is upon you, what will you do? Now you'd better start practicing the sublime Dharma right away; Now, quick, hurry-recite the six-syllable mantra. View quote
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If you continue investigating, you will find that there is nothing anywhere, not even a single atom, that has a verifiable existence. View quote
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This body of ours, which we cherish so dearly, will turn into a corpse that our friends and family will only want to dispose of as quickly as possible. View quote
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Not long ago your conciousness was wandering alone. Swept by karma, it took its present birth. Soon, like a hair pulled out of butter, Leaving everything behind, you'll go on alone. View quote
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