tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79318775520323023982024-03-04T23:26:08.055-05:00Digging the DharmaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15706176386179683625noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931877552032302398.post-34448593602627184882012-07-12T07:48:00.002-04:002012-07-12T07:48:54.513-04:00The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 169<div style="text-align: center;">
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Bodhicitta beholds the totality of living beings<br />
like a mother does her only son. It is the nectar<br />
that is of one taste with being of help to others,<br />
hoping neither for reward or future result.</div>
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The bodhicitta of bodhisattvas is like a spiritual friend<br />
who naturally exhorts one to be ethical, to study,<br />
to analyze, to meditate, and to work for the welfare of<br />
wandering beings who reach as far as space.</div>
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What discriminating person would not delight in bodhicitta,<br />
which eliminates the increase in afflictive emotions,<br />
which stops any other faults from arising,<br />
and which is the culmination of all that is proper?</div>
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Those who abandon the production of Mahayana bodhicitta<br />
go to the extreme of peace, as they have abandoned the happinesses<br />
of seeing the highest reality endowed with the intention to find<br />
the altruistic thought and the method for that altruistic aim.</div>
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Those who enjoy the way of the holy ones<br />
should most assuredly get hold of this bodhicitta.<br />
just as those who want to reach<br />
the land of jewels rely on a ship</div>
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In every action of body, speech, and mind,<br />
directly or indirectly, bodhicitta<br />
takes the aims of others as foremost,<br />
ignoring selfish, insignificant aims.</div>
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The conflagration at the end of the eon<br />
burns up the mountains, continents, and oceans.<br />
It is certain that bodhicitta burns up every<br />
great wickedness in a single moment.</div>
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How could someone in whom the bodhicitta<br />
of the supreme vehicle exists ever turn<br />
toward the poison of self-cherishing, even for a moment?<br />
How could they give up the nectar of cherishing others?</div>
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Since Mahayana bodhicitta surpasses<br />
every virtuous state of mind of the non-buddhists,<br />
the sravakas, and the pratyekabuddhas,<br />
it is therefore praised by the guru buddhas</div>
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With bodhicitta one enjoys happiness.<br />
With bodhicitta one enjoys even sorrow.<br />
With bodhicitta one enjoys what is there.<br />
With bodhicitta one enjoys even what is not there.</div>
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If you lack bodhicitta you will not become enlightened<br />
even if you restrain from wickedness,<br />
even if you gather together wholesome dharmas,<br />
even if you meditate on the channels, winds and drops</div>
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Bodhicitta causes the water lily of benefit<br />
and happiness equal to space to unfold;<br />
it completely protects from dangers and so on<br />
and places one at the level of full enlightenment</div>
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With bodhicitta one easily gets to the<br />
supreme stage of knowledge of all modes of meditation.<br />
In a fast jet, even though one covers<br />
a great distance, how could one arrive?</div>
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Even if physical virtues degenerate,<br />
even if virtues of speech degenerate,<br />
even if other mental virtues degenerate,<br />
bodhicitta should never degenerate.</div>
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Bodhicitta is what one should study.<br />
Bodhictta is what one should think about.<br />
Bodhicitta is what one should meditate on.<br />
One should cherish it completely.</div>
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If one lacks Mahayana bodhicitta, even though it is true<br />
that one's practice of calm abiding and special insight<br />
in unity will take one to the sravaka or pratyekabuddha level,<br />
it is impossible for one to obtain complete enlightenment.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>-- The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Khunu Rinpoche </i></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15706176386179683625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931877552032302398.post-64790992318571209602012-06-02T11:59:00.001-04:002012-06-02T11:59:37.417-04:00The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 153<div style="text-align: center;">
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Amongst happinesses, the cessation of samsara is true happiness.<br />
Amongst suffering, the Avici hell is suffering.<br />
Amongst what is tenable, the true nature of dharmas is tenable.<br />
Amongst wholesome thoughts, bodhicitta is supreme.<br />
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Based on philosophy, meditation, and behavior<br />
that are informed by bodhicitta, just like an effect<br />
that comes from all the causes being complete,<br />
unsurpassable enlightenment is reached</div>
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If bodhicitta of the supreme vehicle is produced,<br />
it makes no difference whether one is high or low,<br />
rich or poor, smart or stupid, brahmin or outcaste;<br />
one becomes an object of worship of the world and gods.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>-- The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Khunu Rinpoche</i></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15706176386179683625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931877552032302398.post-26769292825960973092012-05-30T08:39:00.000-04:002012-05-30T08:39:03.477-04:00The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 150<div style="text-align: center;">
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There are two Mahayana bodhicittas;<br />
the conventional and the ultimate.<br />
The conventional is the wishing and setting out bodhicittas.<br />
The ultimate is the nonconceptual, free from elaboration.</div>
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In his <i>Alamkara*, </i>Ajita explained<br />
the bodhicitta of the bodhisattvas,<br />
starting with the one that is like the earth<br />
up to the one that is like a cloud.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>-- The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Khunu Rinpoche<br />*The Ornament is the Abhisamayalamkara by Ajita Maitreya</i></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15706176386179683625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931877552032302398.post-33864141045752174012012-05-28T12:04:00.000-04:002012-05-28T12:04:49.894-04:00The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 148<div style="text-align: center;">
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With a ship one is delivered to the farther shore.<br />
With a mount one reaches the place one wants to go.<br />
With bodhicitta one is similarly conveyed<br />
to the level of full buddhahood.</div>
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On account of bodhicitta, the ennobled bodhisattva<br />
views all enemies, friends, and strangers as equal<br />
in a way that is far superior<br />
to the way that others view them as equal</div>
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How could the surpassing intention<br />
of the ordinary person, the sravakas,<br />
and the two types of pratyekabuddhas<br />
ever attain to the level of Mahayana bodhicitta?</div>
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Through bodhicitta all the practices of giving,<br />
morality, patience, vigor, concentration,<br />
and wisdom become causes for attaining enlightenment,<br />
and they get the name "perfection" (paramita) as well.</div>
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