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Practice

• When you realize that the whole of samsara is meaningless, that when the good actions are exhausted you will return to suffering, you have come to the starting point of practice.
• The central point of practice is to overcome attachment and aversion.
• When you sit down and practice dharma, what you practice is love and compassion. The practice is to alleviate the sufferings of all sentient beings.
• If you transform everything you do into benefit of others, you transform everything into practice.
• Resolve to practice until enlightenment. Otherwise we can abandon teachings when hardship arises, or when we reach comfort of gods and humans.
• To practice means to benefit others. Even if you recite just one mani, think ‘May it benefit all beings.’
• When ego is involved, practice fails. Therefore generate compassion.

• Without compassion, practice is not Buddhism.
• Practice until compassion arises without practicing.

• If you are practicing to free from lower realms, you are not seeing the upper realms as suffering.
• Laziness is when you cannot start your practice.
• Practice is about releasing grasping. Even if you have only one minute, practice.
• Learn to use day time for practice. Then by force of habit, night time utilization will come.
• Practice to bring all beings to buddhahood.
• How to make time for practice? Turn mind to dharma.
• Practicing without love and compassion is like having wood without fire. Wood cannot keep us warm.
• Not enough to know dharma. We must embody dharma. Practice means to habituate.
• Be alert for opportunity to practice.
• Without bodhicitta, practice increases self-clinging.
• Our practice is to reduce suffering of others.
• Don’t practice out of fear. Practice is not about self-preservation.
• Practice with body, speech and mind - whichever is free.
• Don’t renounce daily activities. Transform them into path.
• Don’t just count mantras, connect with the meaning of the practice.
• Not enough to have the thought to practice. We must practice. Cannot quench thirst by seeing a glass of water.
• With every breath, practice giving and taking.
• Practice these things. Don’t just leave it in books.
• Practicing to remove fear is worldly dharma.
• We don’t skip meals. We should not skip practice.
• The point is to wake up. Don’t generate too many conceptual thoughts. Keep it simple.