One Hundred Verses Of Advice 01

Hi there

A recent friend (or perhaps a long time one... it depends on which side of reality we are seeing, how far and how deeply we can see into the truth) has given me a book containing Dilgo Khyentse's commentaries on Padampa Sangye's One Hundred Verses Of Advice.

Today at work I had the idea of writing these here and make a brief commentary on what they made me reflect upon and, perhaps share some of Dilgo Khyentse's insights.

So, without further ado...

01
"If you spend the present meaninglessly and leave with empty hands,
People of Tingri, a human life in future will be very hard to find."

To me this is call for people to practice spirituality as a way of reaching higher forms of attainment and thus liberate themselves, at the very least, from the cycle of rebirth in lower existences (the realms below the human one, ie, animals and the various hells)
It is a reminder of Karma and of the somewhat invisible yet omnipresent consequences of our actions.
It also alerts to the fact that by not being able of attaining a human life in a future rebirth (and attaining something pertaining to a lower realm) almost certainly will mean a great difficulty in purifying oneself, in releasing oneself from ignorance. In the lower realms spiritual work becomes incredibly difficult and so one tends to stay trapped in there for many cycles.
This is admonishment for all people to use the great blessing of incarnating in a human body wisely, in pursuit of liberation, for their well-being and that of others.

Dilgo Khyentse puts it more plainly by simply stating that when the time for sowing comes the farmers sow. They do not wait around for a better time. This is what we should do with our human life and the sowing of spirituality also.

peace.