“Ho! Mesmerized by the sheer variety of perceptions, beings wander endlessly astray in samsara's vicious cycle.”

—  Jigme Lingpa

Quoted in Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (2008), p. 21.

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