ཉིན་རེའི་ཚིག་བཅད། • Daily Verse

While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued, though you may conquer external foes, they will only increase. Therefore with the militia of love and compassion subdue your own mind — this is the practice of bodhisattvas.

Gyalse Tokme Zangpo, Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva

Contemplation

What external battle am I fighting that is really an internal one?

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