Digging the Dharma

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 169

2012-07-12T07:48:00.002-04:00

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

2012-07-07T15:27:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-22T08:51:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-21T08:15:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-20T21:40:00.001-04:00

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

2012-06-13T13:06:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-12T15:14:00.001-04:00

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

2012-06-11T06:00:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-10T06:00:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-09T06:00:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-08T06:00:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-07T21:04:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-06T08:26:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-05T08:26:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-04T08:35:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-03T10:02:00.000-04:00

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

2012-06-02T11:59:00.001-04:00

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

2012-06-01T09:09:00.001-04:00

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

2012-05-31T08:26:00.001-04:00

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

2012-05-30T08:39:00.000-04:00

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 149

2012-05-29T08:33:00.000-04:00

In his Alamkara*, Ajita explained
the bodhicitta of the bodhisattvas,
starting with the one that is like the earth
up to the one that is like a cloud.

-- The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Khunu Rinpoche
*The Ornament is the Abhisamayalamkara by Ajita Maitreya

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 148

2012-05-28T12:04:00.000-04:00

With a ship one is delivered to the farther shore.
With a mount one reaches the place one wants to go.
With bodhicitta one is similarly conveyed
to the level of full buddhahood.

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 147

2012-05-27T11:47:00.000-04:00

On account of bodhicitta, the ennobled bodhisattva
views all enemies, friends, and strangers as equal
in a way that is far superior
to the way that others view them as equal

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 146

2012-05-26T13:55:00.000-04:00

How could the surpassing intention
of the ordinary person, the sravakas,
and the two types of pratyekabuddhas
ever attain to the level of Mahayana bodhicitta?

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

The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta Verse 145

2012-05-25T07:25:00.001-04:00

Six-paramitas by Michelle Spark

Through bodhicitta all the practices of giving,
morality, patience, vigor, concentration,
and wisdom become causes for attaining enlightenment,
and they get the name "perfection" (paramita) as well.

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