Girl, expose your hidden faults,

Trample down grudges,

Lift up the powerless,

Sever obscurations,

Behold craving,

Wander in scary places!

Knowing that all beings are like space,

In dangerous places, seek the Buddha within yourself.

In the future, your teachings will be as bright as the sun rising in the sky!

—Padampa Sangye’s advice to a young, Machig Labdron

Dampa Sangye (?-1117 CE), Dampa Sangye also called "Father Excellent Buddhahood", was a Buddhist mahasiddha of the Indian Tantra movement who transmitted many teachings based on both Sutrayana and Tantrayana to Buddhist practitioners in Tibet in the late 11th century. He travelled to Tibet more than five times.