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Shantideva (sometimes ΕΔntideva) was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar and adherent of the Prasangika Madhyamaka philosophy, renowned as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara
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βMay no one who encounters me
Ever have an insignificant contact.β
Ever have an insignificant contact.β
βOnce I have forsaken the vow of guarding my mind, of what use are many vows to me?β
βMay the slander, harm
And all forms of abuse
That anyone should direct towards me
Act as a cause of their enlightenment.β
And all forms of abuse
That anyone should direct towards me
Act as a cause of their enlightenment.β
βLet my possessions vanish; let my honor, my body, livelihood, and everything else pass away. But may my virtuous mind never be lost.β
βOne should eliminate yearning that arises for various idle conversations, which often take place, and for all kinds of entertainment.β
βThey who out of wisdom
Have seized the supreme Bodhimind
Praise, glorify and rejoice in it,
That it may grow to fulfilment.β
Have seized the supreme Bodhimind
Praise, glorify and rejoice in it,
That it may grow to fulfilment.β
βUntil every being afflicted by pain
Has reached nirvanas shores,
May I serve only as a condition
That encourages progress and joy.β
Has reached nirvanas shores,
May I serve only as a condition
That encourages progress and joy.β
βTo the Buddhas considering parinirvarna
I join my hands in prayer
Do not abandon the beings in sorrow
But remain and teach for countless ages.β
I join my hands in prayer
Do not abandon the beings in sorrow
But remain and teach for countless ages.β
βMay any spiritual energy thus generated
By my devotion to the enlightened ones
Be dedicated to dispelling the misery
Of living beings without exception.β
By my devotion to the enlightened ones
Be dedicated to dispelling the misery
Of living beings without exception.β
βRegardless whether those whom I meet
Respond towards me with anger or faith,
May the mere fact of our meeting
Contribute to the fulfilment of their wishes.β
Respond towards me with anger or faith,
May the mere fact of our meeting
Contribute to the fulfilment of their wishes.β
βIn the spiritual energy that relieves
The anguish of beings in misery and
Places depressed beings in eternal joy
I lift up my heart and rejoice.β
The anguish of beings in misery and
Places depressed beings in eternal joy
I lift up my heart and rejoice.β
βThose who injure me are really impelled by my actions.
For this they will go to the realms of hell.
Surely it is they who are harmed by me? Chapter 10β
For this they will go to the realms of hell.
Surely it is they who are harmed by me? Chapter 10β
βIn the ocean-like virtue of the Bodhimind
That brings joy to all beings
And in accomplishing the well-being of others,
I lift up my heart and rejoice.β
That brings joy to all beings
And in accomplishing the well-being of others,
I lift up my heart and rejoice.β
βThus today in the presence of all awakened Ones
I invite every living being to this festival
Giving both immediate and lasting joy.
May the gods and all others rejoice. Chapter 6β
I invite every living being to this festival
Giving both immediate and lasting joy.
May the gods and all others rejoice. Chapter 6β
βFor the sake of all beings I have made this body pleasureless. Let them continually beat it, revile it, and cover it with filth. Let them play with my body. Let them laugh at it and ridicule it. What does it matter to me? I have given my body to them.β
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Shantideva on Worry
βIf you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?β
Shantideva on Wild animal suffering
Shantideva on Mind
βThe mind within the senses does not dwell, It has no place in outer things, like form, And in between, the mind does not abide; Not out, not in, not elsewhere can the mind be found. Something not within the body, and yet nowhere else, That does not merge with it nor stand apartβ Something such as this does not exist, not even slightly. Beings have nirvana in their nature.β
About Shantideva
Shantideva (sometimes ΕΔntideva) was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar and adherent of the Prasangika Madhyamaka philosophy, renowned as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara