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