From The Precious Treasury of Pith Instructions
There are six ways to work on something positive—your spiritual development:
Showing respect for your spiritual superiors holds enormous potential for development,
so make offerings to gurus, yidams, and dakinis—this is essential.
Benefitting those under you holds enormous potential for development,
so with immeasurable compassion, care for those who are suffering or in need—this is essential.
Viewing the sacred dharma inwardly without sectarian bias holds enormous potential for development,
so exert yourself in listening to, contemplating, and meditating on spiritual teachings.
Benefiting those around you holds enormous potential for development,
so arouse your altruistic motivation, explain the dharma, and act as a protector, a refuge, an ally, and a friend.
Not basing your frame of reference on ordinary characteristics holds enormous potential for development,
so avoid self—importance, arrogance, and fixation on such characteristics.
Experiencing the way of abiding in all situations holds enormous potential for development,
so realize the ultimate significance of the Three Jewels in your practice.
If you act in these ways, you will swiftly attain buddhahood.
