Because the influence of gain and respect causes quarreling and the decline of the activities of listening, pondering and meditation, to abandon attachment to the households of friends, relations and benefactors is the bodhisattvas' practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Daily Quote - 3rd Dec 2010
If , influenced by afflictions, one points out another bodhisattva's faults, oneself is diminished. Therefore, not speaking about the faults of those who have entered the Great Vehicle is the bodhisattvas' practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practice of Bodhisattvas
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practice of Bodhisattvas
Daily Quote - 2nd Dec 2010
If, having [merely] the appearance of a practitioner, one does not investigate one's own mistakes, it is possible to act contrary to the Dharma. Therefore, constantly examining one's own errors and abandoning them is the Bodhisattvas' practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
Wisdom Quote - 1st Dec 2010
If one lacks wisdom, it is impossible to attain perfect enlightenment through the [other] five perfections. Thus, cultivating skillful means with the wisdom that does not discriminate among the three spheres is the Bodhisattvas' practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
Daily Quote - 30th Nov 2010
Having understood that afflictions are destroyed by insight possessed with tranquil abiding, to cultivate concentration that perfectly transcends the four formless [absorptions] is the bodhisattvas' practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Daily Quote - 29th Nov 2010
Even hearers and solitary realizers, who accomplish only their own welfare, strive as if putting out a fire on their heads. Seeing this, taking up diligent effort- the source of good qualities- for the sake of all beings is the bodhisattvas’ practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
Daily Quote - 28th Nov 2010
To bodhisattvas who desire the wealth of virtue, all those who do harm are like a precious treasure. Therefore, cultivating patience devoid of hostility towards anyone is the bodhisattvas’ practice.
- Ngulchu Rinchen Bodhisattva
The Thirty-Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas
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