Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta
Verses from the Avatamsaka Sutra on practicing compassion and bodhicitta in daily life.
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41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta
A Mahayana prayer for daily life from the Flower Ornament Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra).
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Introduction: Cultivating bodhicitta daily
Inspiration to live each day like a bodhisattva.
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Verse 1: The citadel of liberation
Transform the act of entering a house to be a cause of enlightenment.
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Verse 3: The dreamlike nature of things
To see that all things are like an illusion, like a dream, appearing in one…
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Verse 4: The sleep of ignorance
On waking up, thinking that we're coming out of ignorance, especially the ignorance grasping at…
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Verses 2-4: Review
Different ways of looking at verses 2-4, on an ordinary level and on a tantric…
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Special verse: Oceans of merit
What to consider while inviting generosity, the amazing opportunity that others have to create merit…
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Vesak verse: Bodhicitta on Vesak day
Celebrating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and passing into parinirvana with a verse the cultivates a…
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Verse 5-1: Attaining the form buddha bodies
Planting the seeds to be able to attain the form body of the Buddha, the…
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Verse 5-2: Creating the causes
The importance of cultivating the two sides of the path, method and wisdom, just as…
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Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity
Seeing an opportunity for non-virtue but restraining ourselves because of a sense of our own…
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