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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 6-2: Consideration for others

Abandoning negativities out of care, affection, consideration, and an awareness of how our actions impact…

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Essence of Refined Gold

The objects of different consciousnesses

Appearing objects, observed objects, apprehended objects, and referent objects.

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Special verse: Oceans of merit

What to consider while inviting generosity, the amazing opportunity that others have to create merit…

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verses 2-4: Review

Different ways of looking at verses 2-4, on an ordinary level and on a tantric…

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Purple flowers blossom in a bunch.
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Essence of Refined Gold

Developing insight into emptiness

The steps for developing insight into emptiness, and the difference between conceptual mind and non-conceptual…

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