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Benefits of suffering ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Benefits of suffering ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was last modified: November 6th, 2016 by dorjeduck

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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Further quotes from the book The Heart of Compassion:

  • Accepting short-term sufferings
  • Cutting through subtler misconceptions
  • I like suffering
  • Practice day and night
  • No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
  • The magnifying glass of your faith and devotion
  • 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
  • Phenomena adorn emptiness
  • 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


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