The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 140

What is the use of working to grow a shoot
if you are without a seed? What is the use
of working to obtain complete buddhahood
if you are without bodhicitta?

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 115

Application of the seven-limbed practice

of offering and so forth produces and build up bodhicitta,

just as the application of water, fertilizer, and so forth

produces and build up a seedling.

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