Showing posts with label highest good. Show all posts
Showing posts with label highest good. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2012

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 130

Whatever it may be, a far-reaching good deed
is hard to do without bodhicitta.
Without the cow from which one milks one's wishes,
it is hard to complete all one's aims.
--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

Monday, February 27, 2012

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 58


It is proper to set up the throne of a cakravartin emperor
in a place of vast prosperity.
The sprout of bodhicitta is produced as well
in a mind of vast goodness.
--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 53


With bodhicitta one achieves high status;
with bodhicitta one achieves the highest good;
for this reason the story of bodhicitta
graces the lips of the holy ones.
--The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta  Khunu Rinpoche