The right cultivation direction is to measure ourselves first and eliminate our own “attachment” (raga), “aversion” (devesa) and “delusion” (moha). Only a person with composure and wisdom can become a model for others to follow. Conversely, if one’s desire and mental afflictions are particularly raging, fundamentally he does nothing to truly benefit anyone else except troubling himself.

——Guru Wangpo, Commentary on Dharma Song of Triumph

THE PRECIOUS DAY

This day, today, is of inconceivable importance for all of our myriad future lives. Why? Because what we do today has the potential to bring benefit or harm to those countless future lives. Suppose that today, through your practice, you reduce or dent your afflictions just a little bit, or gain a tiny nugget of dharma wisdom, that’ll have a knock on effect in all your future lives.

Today’s opportunities are only here today, if we don’t use them well, we can’t get them back. Tomorrow’s opportunities are tomorrow’s opportunities - not today’s returned. So we cannot let our time go to waste, it’s absolutely essential that we make the most of it.

27 December 2016, Thrangu Sekhar Retreat Center, Nepal

what is insistence?That is ,day after day,you tell yourself to go on for another day .It takes courage to follow your mind .But it takes everything to follow your heart.A woman ,especially ,if she has the misfortune of knowing anything ,should conceal it as well as she can.
Affliction comes to us ,not to make us sad but sober;not to make us sorry but wise. https://t.cn/R2W6X7X