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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.

— Dilgo Khyentse Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones (1992)

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

Devotion is the ring that allows the hook of the teacher’s compassion to pull you out of the mire of samsara.

The Hundred Verses of Advice: Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most (2005)

If you continue investigating, you will find that there is nothing anywhere, not even a single atom, that has a verifiable existence.

Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones (1992)

The buddha nature... is present in all beings, but is hidden by obscurations, in the same way that buried gold is hidden...

It is important to become more and more clearly convinced that the only thing worth achieving is supreme enlightenment.

The Heart of Compassion (2006)

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