One Hundred Verses Of Advice 02

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"To apply yourselves with body, speech and mind to the sacred teachings,
People of Tingri, is the best thing you can do."

These verses seem to take us back to the positive consequences (for self and others) of truly engaging with a true spiritual path. Perhaps it tells us how from the teachings comes all that we might need in our life. But perhaps also, that every action, every word and every thought can be a vehicle for the teachings themselves.

Dilgo Khyentse reminds us that cause and effect are omni-present and that the consequences of our actions will karmically reflect on future incarnations. That the body is a vehicle we must learn how to use. And he tells the tale of a sage that, at the end of every day, piled stones in two heaps. White stones for every good deed. And black stones for every bad deed. And that he did this until the day came where he only had a pile of white stones in front of him.