Za-Patrul Rimpoche’s Word

མཐོ་ན་མི་དགའ་དམའ་ན་དགའ།

མཐོ་ན་ཕྲག་དོག་ང་རྒྱལ་སྐྱེ།

དམའ་ན་བག་ཡངས་དགེ་སྦྱོར་འཕེལ།

དམན་ས་གོང་མའི་གདན་ས་ཡིན།

འབྱོར་ན་མི་དགའ་རྒུད་ན་དགའ།

འབྱོར་ན་གསོག་སྲུང་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཆེ།

རྒུད་ན་དཀའ་སྤྱད་ལྷ་ཆོས་འགྲུབ།

སྤྲང་ལུས་ཆོས་པའི་གཏད་སོ་ཡིན།

རྫ་དཔལ་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། 

It is better to have a humble station than a high status. 

High status breeds pride and jealousy, 

while a humble station brings peace and virtue. 

Truly, the low ground is the seat of the supreme ones.

It is better to be poor than to be rich. 

The rich suffer from the burden of acquiring and protecting their wealth, 

while the poor find virtue through their struggles. 

The body of a beggar is the sanctuary of a noble spirit.

By Enlightened Vagabond, Za-Patrul Rinpoche

Inner Values

“It is important to cultivate the inner values of patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, and self-discipline. These inner values help us to remain calm and composed in difficult situations and to be free from the negative emotions of anger, jealousy, and hatred,”

Compassion

“Compassion is concern for others – sincere concern for others’ wellbeing founded on awareness of our own experience. Since it makes us happy when others show us affection and offer us help, if we show others affection and readiness to help they too will feel joy.”