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14 Inner knowledge amongst knowledges. The wish-fulfilling gem amongst all jewels. The stallion amongst the fleet-footed. Bodhicitta amongst thoughts.
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21 Supreme bodhicitta is the wish to remove every flaw from every living being and to bring about limitless good qualities in each of them. This is outstanding even amongst the outstanding!
22 If one wants to benefit everyone, one needs bodhicitta. If one wants to befriend everyone, one needs bodhicitta. If one wants to gain the confidence of all, one needs bodhicitta If one wants to be everyone’s spiritual friend, one needs bodhicitta.
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26 If you want to help yourself, produce excellent bodhicitta. If you want to help others, produce excellent bodhicitta. If you want to serve the doctrine, produce bodhicitta. If you want the path to bliss, produce bodhicitta.
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30 A tired traveler sweltering from the heat is happy to find the leafy green shade of a tree. A wanderer, worn out traveling the paths of existence, is happy when precious bodhicitta grows.
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33 For raising your spirits when you are down, for removing arrogance when you are flush, nothing in the world compares with the non-deceiving friend that is bodhicitta.
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tobes wrote: Mon Dec 19, 2022 11:19 pm I celebrate what you're doing here. I find it a bit scandalous that so little is written about bodhicitta on this forum....
I agree. Good job, this is encouraging.
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40 The waxing bodhicitta moon that causes to swell the joyful ocean of altruistic intentions and so on puts even the cooling nighttime moon to shame.
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Until only space remain.
I had dream looking hard for beings in samsara, but i couldn't find any, only the peaceful blue space. Such a dream. And transited frome hope to certainty.
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. left a legacy of nonviolence.

In his work, King was dedicated to ending what he called the “triple evils” of poverty, racism and militarism. To defeat these triple evils, King developed a non-violent frame of mind.

King’s principles of nonviolence have six key parts:
  • One: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
  • Two: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
  • Three: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, or evil, not people.
  • Four: Nonviolence holds that unearned, voluntary suffering for a just cause can educate and transform people and societies.
  • Five: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
  • Six: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
the man is inspiring. i think is a boddhisattva.
true dharma is inexpressible.

The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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jet.urgyen wrote: Tue Jan 17, 2023 3:15 pm
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. left a legacy of nonviolence.

In his work, King was dedicated to ending what he called the “triple evils” of poverty, racism and militarism. To defeat these triple evils, King developed a non-violent frame of mind.

King’s principles of nonviolence have six key parts:
  • One: Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people.
  • Two: Nonviolence seeks to win friendship and understanding.
  • Three: Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, or evil, not people.
  • Four: Nonviolence holds that unearned, voluntary suffering for a just cause can educate and transform people and societies.
  • Five: Nonviolence chooses love instead of hate.
  • Six: Nonviolence believes that the universe is on the side of justice.
the man is inspiring. i think is a boddhisattva.
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38 A jewel mine, a wish-fulfilling cow, a bench to stop and rest for those who tread the path, more excellent than the finest medicine, Bodhicitta is proclaimed supreme.
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42 Without arrogance when things go well, not depressed when times are hard, unharmable by anything— this bodhicitta gold.
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44 If you ask what is the sweetest sound in the world, even if many refined people were to investigate it, I don’t think you will hear anything but the word “bodhicitta.”
Just thinking today and yesterday about all the problems averted with this kind of practice past present and future

Not to mention benefiting others....
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bodhicitta makes the path infallible.

even the dangers of mystical power are sorted easily and securely by the bodhisattvas.
true dharma is inexpressible.

The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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those who reached irreversible bodhicitta, beyond the doubts of selfish desire, are beloved and welcomed by the protectors of buddhadharma. to those the gates to the straight-forward path are wide open with the mere idea of a swift way to complete the endeavour.
true dharma is inexpressible.

The bodhisattva nourishes from bodhicitta, through whatever method the Buddha has given him. Oh joy.
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All Buddha's conduct reflect perfectly the four immesurable in practice, why a son would disregard any of them? Intelligent and diligent sons embraces universal-love, compassion, equanimity and emphatic joy and aspire to apply them.
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Fearless Bodhicitta is the greatest "asset". What won't a hero, noble son, would do with such a wealth?
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jet.urgyen wrote: Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:33 pm Fearless Bodhicitta is the greatest "asset". What won't a hero, noble son, would do with such a wealth?
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47 Though there are many things like ketaka that clear away impurities from water, it is hard to find anything other than bodhicitta to clear away the impurities of the afflictions.
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50 Bodhicitta gets rid of nastiness. Bodhicitta banishes suffering. Bodhicitta frees one from fear. Bodhicitta stops bad conduct.
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