Sometimes, visualize that your heart is a brilliant ball of light. As you breathe out, it radiates rays of white light in all directions, carrying your happiness to all beings. As you breathe in, their suffering, negativity and afflictions come towards you in the form of dense, black light, which is absorbed in your heart and disappears in its brilliant white light without a trace, relieving all beings of their pain and sorrow.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva

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• 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
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• I like suffering
• Practice day and night
• No greater obstacle to Dharma practice
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• No more than an empty echo
• Before it is too late
• Never stop thinking about how to gain liberation
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• The children of the buddhas