The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 147

On account of bodhicitta, the ennobled bodhisattva
views all enemies, friends, and strangers as equal
in a way that is far superior
to the way that others view them as equal

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 146

How could the surpassing intention
of the ordinary person, the sravakas,
and the two types of pratyekabuddhas
ever attain to the level of Mahayana bodhicitta?

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 103

Wherever goes a cakravartin emperor's precious wheel,

there go the other precious things as well.

Every goodness naturally follows

in the train of supreme bodhicitta.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 102

Since a buddha is born from a bodhisattva

and a bodhisattva is born from bodhicitta,

intelligent persons understand

the greatness of supreme bodhicitta.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 101

Those who wish to follow the spiritual practice

of the bodhisattvas, the Victor's children,

at the very outset strive to produce

bodhicitta since it is the foundation of that practice.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 93

Like the moon amongst the constellations,

on account of Mahayana bodhicitta

the bodhisattvas surpass non-Buddhists

and the sravakas and pratyekabuddhas.

--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 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 54

Even an ordinary person gets called "bodhisattva"

when bodhicitta is produced,

and becomes an object of homage and devotion

for gods and humans.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 39

If you wish to proceed easily to the level

of the knowledge of all modes of meditation,

what other method is there if you do not

rely upon the bodhicitta of the Victor's children?

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

A Bodhisattva's Gem

(There,) let me always be stable with my Buddha-figure
And whenever a feeling of laziness or exhaustion arises,
Let me enumerate my own shortcomings
And remind myself of the essential points of taming behavior.

-- Atisha, A Bodhisattva's Garland of Gems