02/03/2023
“You may be able to keep the three vows perfectly, but unless you are
determined to free yourself from the three worlds of samsara it just creates further causes of Samsara, You may be able to strive day and night to do good with body, speech, and mind, but unless you know how to dedicate the merit to perfect enlightenment, two or three wrong thoughts are enough to destroy it entirely. You may be teachers and meditators, full of piety and learning, but unless your minds are turned away from the eight ordinary concerns, whatever you do will only be for this present life, and you will not encounter the path that helps for future lives." - Atisha
This illustrates how important it is to be taken under the care of a teacher, a spiritual friend
- From “Words of My Perfect Teacher”
