Longchenpa on the Precious Human Life

From Finding Rest in the Nature of Mind (volume 1).

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My friends, your human form endowed with precious freedoms and advantages
Of all the six migrations is the most difficult to find.
Like blind men who have chanced upon a treasure of great price,
With joy achieve your benefit and happiness.

What are they, then, these freedoms and advantages?
You have not taken birth in hell or else as hungry ghosts,
As beasts or as long-lived gods, or else among the wild men of the borderlands.
You do not have perverted views, have not been born with handicaps
Or in an age in which a Buddha has not come.
From these eight unfree states you are completely free.
You have been born in human form and in a central land.
Your faculties are whole, your lives unmarred by evil ways,
And in the Doctrine you have confidence:
The five great personal advantages are all complete in you.
A Buddha has appeared and set his Teaching forth.
The Doctrine still remains and beings enter it,
While others, through compassion, set it forth for them.
Such are your five advantages of circumstance.
In you the eighteen freedoms and advantages
Are all complete, and therefore here and now
Exert yourself wholeheartedly and win your freedom!

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