Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche was the archetype of the spiritual teacher. His inner journey led him to an extraordinary depth of knowledge and enabled him to be, for all who met him, a fountain of loving kindness, wisdom, and compassion.
Heart Advice in Four Lines
by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
བླ་མ་མ་བརྗེད་རྟག་ཏུ་གསོལ་བ་ཐོབ།།
lama ma jé tak tu solwa tob
Do not forget the guru;
Pray to him1 at all times.
རང་སེམས་མ་ཡེངས་རང་ངོ་རང་གིས་ལྟོས།།
rang sem ma yeng rang ngo rang gi tö
Do not let your mind be distracted;
Look into its very essence.
འཆི་བ་མ་བརྗེད་ཆོས་ལ་བསྐུལ་མ་ཐོབ།།
chiwa ma je chö la kul ma thob
Do not forget death;
Let it spur you on to Dharma.
སེམས་ཅན་མ་བརྗེད་སྙིང་རྗེ་བསྔོ་སྨོན་གྱིས།།
semchen ma je nyingje ngo mön gyi
Do not forget sentient beings;
With compassion dedicate your merit to them and make prayers of aspiration.
ཅེས་དད་ལྡན་ཀུན་བཟང་ངོར་མངྒ་ལས་སོ།།
Written for the devoted Kunzang by Maṅgala.2
https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/dilgo-khyentse/heart-advice-do-not-forget