Quote from Advice from a Yogi

Advice from a Yogi: An Explanation of a Tibetan Classic on What is Most Important,
(Padmapa Sangye's One Hundred Verses)
by Khenchen Thrangu  
Shambhala Publications, Boston, Massachusetts   © 2015  128 pp.

Listen, all you fortunate yogis here in Dingri--

Just as tattered clothes cannot be made like new,

a fatal illness can't be healed by drugs or doctors.

All people on this earth must surely leave.

Just as rivers all run to the ocean,

living beings are bound for the same place.

Like a bird that flies off from a treetop,

I cannot stay long, I must move on.

If you waste this life and leave it empty-handed,

You won't easily find a human birth again,          people of Dingri.

Strive with body, speech, and mind at Dharma.

It's by far the best thing you can do, people of Dingri.

(verses 1-5, page 3)