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Eight Stanzas for Training the Mind By Ga-dam-ba Ge-shay Lang-ri-tang-ba 1. With a determination to accomplish The higheat welfare for all sentient beings Who surpass even a wish-granting jewel I will learn to hold them supremely dear.
2. Whenever I associate with others I will learn To think of myself as the lowest among all And respectfully hold others to be supreme From the very deptha of my heart.
3. In all actions I will learn to search into my mind And as soon as an afflective emotion arises Endangering myself and others Will firmly face and avert it.
4. I will learn to cherish beings of bad nature And those pressed by strong sins and sufferings As if I had found a precious Treasure very difficult to find.
5. When others out of jealousy treat me badly With abuse, slander, and so on, I will learn to take all loss And offer the victory to them.
6. When one whom I have benefitted with great hope Uneasonably hurts me very badly, I will learn to view that person As an excellent spiritual guide.
7. In short, I will learn to offer to everyone without exception All help and happiness directly and indirectly And respectfully takes upon myself All harm and suffering of my mothers.
8. I will learn to keep all these practices Undefiled by the stains of the eight worldy conceptions And by understanding all phenomena as like illusions Be released from the bondage of attachment. [ TOP ] |
Novice Buddhist