World and Dharma.

However industrious you may be,
there is no end to wordly activities;
But if you practice the Dharma
You will swiftly conclude everything.

However nice they may seem,
Samsaric affairs end in disaster;
But the fruit of practicing the Dharma
Will never deteriorate

Since beginningless time you have collected and encouraged
Karma, negative emotions and habitual tendencies
which force you to wander in samsara.
If you continue like that, when will liberation arrive?

If you only see all this at the moment of death,
It's rather too late
when the head's already been severed,
What use is any medicine?

Recognizing the suffering of samsara,
Turn toward the peace of nirvana.

Padmasambhava. _/\_ _/\_ _/\_


You won't accomplish
Both the Dharma and the aims of this ordinary life
If that's your wish,
No doubt you're decieving yourself.

There is no greater obstacle to Dharma practice
Than to be obsessed by the achievements of this life.

Gyalse Thogme. _/\_ _/\_ _/\_