Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze.

It’s never too early or too late to benefit beings.

We live under threat from painful emotions: anger, desire, pride, jealousy and so on. Therefore we should always be ready to counter these with the appropriate antidote. True practitioners may be recognized by their unfailing mindfulness.

Instead of allowing ourselves to be led and trapped by our feelings, we should let them disappear as soon as they form, like letters drawn on water with a finger.

To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

If you vanquish ego-clinging today, tonight you will be enlightened.