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That he promotes that we should completely renounce all activities of this present life, and train in the discipline of taming the mind. Without doing this, as Shantideva says, we will never reach the ultimate stages of the path:
And if we do not give up our attachment to worldly matters and the affairs of this life, we will never reach the ultimate stages of the path, and also of our own personal path.
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche lived up to 20 years in solitary retreat. But at the end of his life, over 50 000 people attended his funeral. Would these 50 000 people have participated on his funeral at the end of his life, if he would have caused constant anger in their brains? Certainly no.