Translation Memory:023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/40

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023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR/40 ID: 023-Tsadra-BC-Com-37 Practices-DilgoKR <br> Date: 18 March 2026 <br> Creator: Dawa;Gwen;Kiran <br> Origin: Tsadra Foundation

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The eight incompatible propensities that limit your natural potential to attain freedom are: (1) to be fettered by your family, wealth and occupations so that you do not have the leisure to practice the Dharma; (2) to have a very corrupt nature that drives you to depraved behaviour, so that even when you meet a spiritual teacher it is very hard to turn your mind to Dharma; (3) to have no fear of samsara's sufferings, and therefore no feeling of disillusionment with samsara, or determination to be free from it; (4) to lack the jewel of faith and therefore have no inclination whatsoever to meet a teacher and undertake the teachings; (5) to delight in negative actions and have no compunction about committing them, thereby turning your back on the Dharma; (6) to have no more interest in Dharma than a dog in eating grass, being therefore unable to develop any positive qualities; (7) to have spoiled your pratimoksha vows and[p.53]The Heart of Compassion: Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva
Ricard, Matthieu, and John Canti (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. and ed. The Heart of Compassion: Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva. By Dilgo Khyentse. New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2006.
Mahayana precepts, and thus to have nowhere else to go but the lower realms of existence where there is no leisure to practice the Dharma; and (8) having entered the extraordinary path of the Vajrayana, to break samaya with your teacher and vajra brothers and sisters, and thus be parted from your natural potential.

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The Need to Give Meaning to This Human Existence of Yours, so Rare and Difficult to Obtain

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ShortTitle 37 Practices Padmakara 2006
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SourceTitleTibetan རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་སོ་བདུན་མ་
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TranslationCitation Ricard, Matthieu, and John Canti (Padmakara Translation Group), trans. and ed. The Heart of Compassion: Instructions on Ngulchu Thogme's Thirty-Sevenfold Practice of a Bodhisattva. By Dilgo Khyentse. New Delhi: Shechen Publications, 2006.
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TransMemDate 18 March 2026
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