Suffering, in fact, can be helpful in many ways. It spurs your motivation and as many teachings point out, without suffering there would be no determination to be free from samsara. Sadness is an effective antidote to arrogance.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
translated by Padmakara Translation Group
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- No more than an empty echo
- Before it is too late
- Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
- The importance of relative bodhicitta
- The children of the buddhas
- Giving and taking
- The best opportunity to put the teachings into practice
- Neither discouragement nor pride
- Powerful sources of help
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- Nothing to be grasped
- The reason you are wandering in samsara
- Seeing clearly how deceiving the ways of the world are
- A practice based on your mind
- Phenomena adorn emptiness, but never corrupt it
- Just projections of the mind
- The only thing that is really worth doing
- The three aspects of diligence
- Accepting short-term sufferings
- Cutting through subtler misconceptions