[The Key that Unlocks the Door to the Noble Path (Lam bzang sgo ...

Even the smallest matters of this life.
Gaining the ultimate goal of all our
Countless lives depends on dharma,
Yet we prize any dharma we might come across,
Not checking if it's good or bad,
And act like dogs with a scrap of food.[73]
DE YANG DPER NA TSE 'DI'I BYA BA NYO TSONG LTA BU CUNG ZAD RE
LA'ANG THABS SNA TSOGS KYIS GZHAN LA'ANG DRIS, RANG GIS
KYANG BRTAG DPYAD NAN TAN BYED KYANG , DE JI TZAM 'PHYUG
NA'ANG TSE PHYI MAR PHAN GNOD GANG YANG MI 'BYUNG , CHOS
NOR BA ZHIG DANG 'PHRAD NA SKYE BA GTAN GYI 'DUN MA 'PHYUG
'GRO ,
That's just how it is—even in every little matter of this present life, like when
you're buying or selling something, you take a lot of care: you do everything you
can think of, you run around and ask other people, you spend a lot of time
thinking over what to do yourself. But no matter how big a mistake you make
with something like this, it's not going to help or hurt you in your future life at
all. If you meet up with a spiritual teaching that's wrong though, you make a
mistake that affects the ultimate goal of all your lives.
SPYIR DBEN PA'I GNAS SU SGRUB PA BYED LO BYAS KYANG GDAMS
NGAG TSANG LA MA NOR BA LA NYAMS LEN RDO RUS THUG PA ZHIG
BYED PA MED NA, PHAL CHER NGAL BA DON MED NYID LAS MA 'DAS
PA YIN TE, RJE MID LAS KYANG ,
Generally speaking a lot of us go off to some deserted place with the notion that
we're going to do some deep practice there. But unless you go with some
instruction in hand that is really complete and totally correct, and unless you
work to dig down to its core, most of what you do won't be much more than
simple wasted effort. As Lord Milarepa once said,
,DON SNYAN BRGYUD KYI GDAMS PA MI BSGOMS NA,
,GNAS RI KHROD BZUNG YANG RANG SDUG YIN,
,ZHES GSUNGS,
The point: if you don't meditate on advices
passed down ear to ear;
The place: you can sit in a mountain cave,