Heart Advice in Four Lines

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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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༄༅། །ཞལ་གདམས་མདོར་བསྡུས་ནི།

Heart Advice in Four Lines

by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

 

བླ་མ་མ་བརྗེད་རྟག་ཏུ་གསོལ་བ་ཐོབ། །

lama ma jé tak tu solwa tob

Do not forget the guru;
Pray to him1 at all times.

རང་སེམས་མ་ཡེངས་རང་ངོ་རང་གིས་ལྟོས། །

rang sem ma yeng rang ngo rang gi tö

Do not let your mind be distracted;
Look into its very essence.

འཆི་བ་མ་བརྗེད་ཆོས་ལ་བསྐུལ་མ་ཐོབ། །

chiwa ma je chö la kul ma thob

Do not forget death;
Let it spur you on to Dharma.

སེམས་ཅན་མ་བརྗེད་སྙིང་རྗེ་བསྔོ་སྨོན་གྱིས། །

semchen ma je nyingje ngo mön gyi

Do not forget sentient beings;
With compassion dedicate your merit to them and make prayers of aspiration.

 

ཅེས་དད་ལྡན་ཀུན་བཟང་ངོར་མངྒ་ལས་སོ།།

Written for the devoted Kunzang by Maṅgala.2

 

| Rigpa Translations.

 

Source: bkra shis dpal 'byor. "bla ma ma brjed sogs/" in gsung 'bum/_rab gsal zla ba. 25 vols. Delhi: Shechen Publications, 1994. Vol. 3: 267b

 

Version: 2.2-20220516

  1. Or her. The Tibetan is gender neutral.
  2. In Nepal, June 4th 1989.
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