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Wake Up From Samsara

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Rinpoche sent this card to a student, with advice about the need for Dharma practice.

Card featuring sleeping dogs, sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to a student with advice about waking up from samsara.
Card featuring sleeping dogs, sent by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to a student with advice about waking up from samsara.

These dogs are not dead, but completely asleep. Someone needs to wake them up. Just like that we are in samsara, continually suffering.

We need to wake up through Dharma practice—by meditating on emptiness and bodhicitta, and realizing the "I" is empty. All our actions, Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, samsara and enlightenment—everything is empty from its own side.