Marco Polo (TV Series)

Let God's Work Begin (2016)

Joan Chen: Empress Chabi

Quotes 

• Phags Pa : [having trouble chanting]  They say grief is hardest on focus. But I'd say fear is worse. Uncertainty of an outcome.

  Empress Chabi : You have borne no children. You know nothing.

  Phags Pa : I know of suffering.

  Empress Chabi : [gruffly]  What could a child such as yourself know of suffering?

  Phags Pa : We measure age not in years but in lifetimes.

  Empress Chabi : And in all your lifetimes, how long has it taken for your karma to catch up with you?

  Phags Pa : The nature of karma is that it comes when it comes, at just the right moment, exactly when one is ready to heed its message.

  Empress Chabi : And if one heeds the message, makes recompense, can the karma be changed?

  Phags Pa : For every action, there is a ripple sent through time. One cannot escape one's karma.

  Empress Chabi : If you do not wish to become a eunuch, stop speaking in riddles.

  Phags Pa : Then again, I suppose one can change it.

  Empress Chabi : How?

  Phags Pa : Learn compassion. Carefully imagine how others feel. Put yourself in their circumstances and practice kindness from that day forward.

  Empress Chabi : That is it?

  Phags Pa : It *will* change your karma now.

  Phags Pa : [to himself after she stomps out]  Or many lifetimes from now.