Marco Polo (TV Series)
Let God's Work Begin (2016)
Aljin Abella: Phags Pa
Quotes
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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.