The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 169

Bodhicitta beholds the totality of living beings
like a mother does her only son.  It is the nectar
that is of one taste with being of help to others,
hoping neither for reward or future result.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 168

The bodhicitta of bodhisattvas is like a spiritual friend
who naturally exhorts one to be ethical, to study,
to analyze, to meditate, and to work for the welfare of
wandering beings who reach as far as space.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 167

What discriminating person would not delight in bodhicitta,
which eliminates the increase in afflictive emotions,
which stops any other faults from arising,
and which is the culmination of all that is proper?

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 166

Those who abandon the production of Mahayana bodhicitta
go to the extreme of peace, as they have abandoned the happinesses
of seeing the highest reality endowed with the intention to find
the altruistic thought and the method for that altruistic aim.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 165

Those who enjoy the way of the holy ones
should most assuredly get hold of this bodhicitta.
just as those who want to reach
the land of jewels rely on a ship

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 164

In every action of body, speech, and mind,
directly or indirectly, bodhicitta
takes the aims of others as foremost,
ignoring selfish, insignificant aims.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 163

The conflagration at the end of the eon
burns up the mountains, continents, and oceans.
It is certain that bodhicitta burns up every
great wickedness in a single moment.

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