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The Way of the Bodhisattva · Chapter 6: Patience
“There is no evil like hatred,
and no fortitude like patience.”
— Shantideva, verse 2
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What does Shantideva mean by “the awakening mind”?
In Chapter 1, verses 9-10, Shantideva distinguishes two aspects of bodhichitta: the aspiration to attain enlightenment for all beings, and the application — actually entering the path.
He compares them to wishing to go somewhere versus actually setting out on the journey...
Sources: Bodhicharyavatara Ch.1 v.9-10, Ch.1 v.15-16
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Glossary
བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།
bodhichitta
byang chub sems
The “mind of awakening” — the aspiration to attain complete enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings. Central to the Mahayana path.
Tibetan script. Wylie transliteration. Cross-referenced across every text in the library.
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Pronunciation Guide
9 prayers availableEssential Prayers
Refuge Prayer
སྐྱབས་འགྲོ།
Bodhicitta Prayer
Heart Sutra Mantra
Major Mantras
Om Mani Padme Hung
Tara Mantra
སྐྱབས་འགྲོ།
Refuge Prayer
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ཉིན་རེའི་ཚིག་བཅད། • Daily Verse
འཇིག་རྟེན་བདེ་བ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །གཞན་བདེ་འདོད་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན། །འཇིག་རྟེན་སྡུག་བསྔལ་ཇི་སྙེད་པ། །རང་བདེ་འདོད་ལས་བྱུང་བ་ཡིན།
“All the joy the world contains has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.”
— Shantideva, The Way of the Bodhisattva
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