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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 162

How could someone in whom the bodhicitta
of the supreme vehicle exists ever turn
toward the poison of self-cherishing, even for a moment?
How could they give up the nectar of cherishing others?

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 161

Since Mahayana bodhicitta surpasses
every virtuous state of mind of the non-buddhists,
the sravakas, and the pratyekabuddhas,
it is therefore praised by the guru buddhas

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 160

With bodhicitta one enjoys happiness.
With bodhicitta one enjoys even sorrow.
With bodhicitta one enjoys what is there.
With bodhicitta one enjoys even what is not there.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 159

If you lack bodhicitta you will not become enlightened
even if you restrain from wickedness,
even if you gather together wholesome dharmas,
even if you meditate on the channels, winds and drops

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 158

Bodhicitta causes the water lily of benefit
and happiness equal to space to unfold;
it completely protects from dangers and so on
and places one at the level of full enlightenment

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 157

With bodhicitta one easily gets to the
supreme stage of knowledge of all modes of meditation.
In a fast jet, even though one covers
a great distance, how could one arrive?

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 156

Even if physical virtues degenerate,
even if virtues of speech degenerate,
even if other mental virtues degenerate,
bodhicitta should never degenerate.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 155

Bodhicitta is what one should study.
Bodhictta is what one should think about.
Bodhicitta is what one should meditate on.
One should cherish it completely.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 154

If one lacks Mahayana bodhicitta, even though it is true
that one's practice of calm abiding and special insight
in unity will take one to the sravaka or pratyekabuddha level,
it is impossible for one to obtain complete enlightenment.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 153

Amongst happinesses, the cessation of samsara is true happiness.
Amongst suffering, the Avici hell is suffering.
Amongst what is tenable, the true nature of dharmas is tenable.
Amongst wholesome thoughts, bodhicitta is supreme.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 152

Based on philosophy, meditation, and behavior
that are informed by bodhicitta, just like an effect
that comes from all the causes being complete,
unsurpassable enlightenment is reached

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 151

If bodhicitta of the supreme vehicle is produced,
it makes no difference whether one is high or low,
rich or poor, smart or stupid, brahmin or outcaste;
one becomes an object of worship of the world and gods.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 150

There are two Mahayana bodhicittas;
the conventional and the ultimate.
The conventional is the wishing and setting out bodhicittas.
The ultimate is the nonconceptual, free from elaboration.

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