Bodhicitta Quotes

• True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.

  Dalai Lama

  Commitment, Emotional, Compassion

  Dalai Lama (2001). “The Compassionate Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.

  Shantideva

  Differences, Needs, Looks

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• When? At this time, while you have all the opportunities, if you do not do your best to achieve the pure, stainless path to enlightenment when will you do it? If you don't meditate, don't practise the graduated path to enlightenment, especially bodhicitta, in this life, then when? When will you practise? When will you have this realization? If, in this life, you don't achieve renunciation, bodhicitta and sunyata, as well as the two stages of tantra, when will you? When will you have these attainments? When will you become enlightened? When will you perform perfect work for sentient beings?

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Opportunity, Two

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• If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.

  Garchen Rinpoche

  Teaching, Essence, Practice

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• If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.

  Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

  Love, Heart, Buddhism

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• Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation.

  Longchenpa

  Practice, Support, Progress

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• There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess Tārā. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Buddhism, People

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.292, Penguin Books India

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