The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 91

Who could measure the heavens with a ruler?

Who could measure out the ocean with a cup?

Who could analyze the workings of karma with their mind?

Who could give voice to the greatness of bodhicitta?

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 90

Remember bodhicitta when your courage begins to wane.

Remember bodhicitta when you slack off from doing thing for others.

Remember bodhicitta when you become lazy.

Remember bodhicitta when you feel run down.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 89

Remember bodhicitta when you feel down.

Remember bodhicitta when you are scared.

Remember bodhicitta when you suffer.

Remember bodhicitta when you feel joy.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 88

Amongst constellations, the moon.

Amongst mountains, Mount Meru.

Similarly whoever has bodhicitta is

resplendent amongst living beings.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 87

An intelligent person's disinterested activity

for the sake of all living beings

without discrimination in all places, times,

and in all situations is based on bodhicitta.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 86

The Prajnaparamita sutras say if you account for all aspects

of the three holy knowledges it will serve as a cause

for the knowledge of all modes of meditation. Since the first aspect

is bodhicitta, it would be wrong to ever forget it.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 85

If you possess the wealth of bodhicitta

it doesn't matter if you are attractive or not,

it doesn't matter if you lack fame and honor,

it doesn't matter if you have no other virtue.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 84

Butchers are skilled in the secrets of life.

Carpenters are skilled in the secrets of wood.

Bodhisattvas who have the great surge of thought

are skilled in the secrets of bodhicitta.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 83

Even if a diamond is broken,

it does not stop being called a diamond.

Similarly, even flashes of bodhicitta

do not stop being called bodhicitta.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 82

Bodhicitta is based on understanding that all have served as one's mother

and on recollecting their kindness;

bodhicitta is produced from repaying their kindness,

and from love and compassion;

and bodhicitta is produced from the surpassing intention;

hence it is extremely important to work at these.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 81

The fact that the more terrible the conditions

become for the bodhisattva, the more

they serve as an aid to their goodness

is, I think, due to bodhicitta.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 80

Words uttered with bodhictta become

the very essence of benefit to others,

a beautiful call of the cuckoo

that ennobles the listener's ear.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 79

Some of the Mahayana is bodhicitta itself,

some its cause and some its fruit.

It is because of this, I think,

that bodhicitta is said to be the Mahayana.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 78

The sun makes its way along the path of the sky.

The elephant of the directions makes its way around the shores

of the ocean. The fame of the Sage makes its way to every ear.

This bodhicitta make its way to the hearts of the good.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 77

The speed of bodhicitta is the lightning flash.

The depth of bodhicitta is the ocean depth.

The limit of bodhicitta is the vault of space.

The firmness of bodhicitta is the axial mountain.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 76

Be it immediate or through a sequence of events

bodhicitta unites wandering beings

equal to the limits of space

with present and lasting happiness.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 75

The practice of good persons who are honest and

broad-minded, whose intellects have the sharpness

of a tip of kusa grass, and who are worthy

of worship, is bodhicitta alone.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 74

The elixir called the philosopher's stone

turns the element iron into gold.

Bodhicitta turns this unclean body

into the body of a buddha.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 73

The sun clears away darkness.

The moon steals away one's cares.

A wish-fufilling gem gives what one desires.

Bodhicitta causes all aims to be obtained.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 72

Bodhicitta pacifies one's own mindstream.

Bodhicitta pacifies the mindstreams of others.

With bodhicitta one respects everyone.

With bodhicitta one sees everyone as equal.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 71

Although antidotes such as ugliness and so on

do not utterly eradicate attachment and so on,

supreme bodhicitta, the antidote for all of them,

is victorious over all that is to be abandoned.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 70

A boat delivers one to the other bank.

A needle stitches up one's clothes.

A horse takes one where one wants to go.

Bodhicitta brings one to buddhahood.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 69

A bodhisattva who is like

the miracle of a tathagata

is said to be superior to a bodhisattva

who is like a bullock cart, and so on.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 68

Though they try, skilled poets cannot find

an example for bodhicitta.

It seems that bodhicitta defies description

even when a simile is employed.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 67

The nectar discharged from the lotus

is the supreme joy of every bumble bee;

the doctrine that is taught with bodhicitta

is supreme joy of every living being.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 66

The sun high up in the sky is the eye

for every wandering being down below,

Bodhicitta on high shows lowly wandering beings

what is to be done and what is to be avoided.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 65

If even the Buddha does not take the full

measure of the goodness of bodhicitta, it goes without saying

that ordinary sravakas, pratyekabuddhas,

and the finest aryas do not either.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 64

With bodhicitta, one does not do things

for gain, devotion, or praise;

and even if one gets those things

like gold one does not change.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 63

If you do not have bodhicitta, then even though

you have some other spiritual practice

you will not become enlightened. If you do not have

the life power, the other sense powers do not function.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 62

With bodhicitta self and others are equal.

With bodhicitta there is an exchange of self for others.

With bodhicitta others are cherished more than oneself.

With bodhicitta there is the plenty that fulfills both purposes.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 61

Bodhicitta serves as the foundation

for every bodhisattva deed,

just as the earth serves as the foundation

for the vast foliage of a leafy tree.

--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche