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EXTRACT There Are No Limits to the Benefits of Bodhichitta SCRIPTED 13-Apr-2018

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Channel: FPMT · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Lama Zopa Rinpoche begins this video, which was recorded in April 2018 at the Great Stupa of Universal Compassion in Bendigo, Australia, by reminding us of the benefits of making even a tiny offering to a holy object. But, Rinpoche explains, those benefits are far exceeded by the mere thought of benefiting sentient beings.

Rinpoche quotes from Lama Atisha’s Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment:

Gang gi thäl mo jar gyi te
Jang chhub tu ni sem tü na
Chhö pa di ni kyä par phag
De la tha ni ma chhi so

This is surpassed by
The offering of putting the palms together
And generating bodhicitta,
For such is limitless.

Rinpoche then mentions a quotation on bodhicitta from Shantideva's Bodhicharyavatara:

Phän par sam pa tsam gyi kyang
Sang gyä chö lä khyä phag na

Even the mere thought to benefit someone
Surpasses making offerings to the buddhas.

Rinpoche explains how it is shown that the mere thought of benefiting a single sentient being, surpasses skies of offerings done to all the buddhas.

When our motivation is to achieve enlightenment for the numberless sentient beings, to free them from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to peerless happiness, the total cessation of obscurations and completion of realizations, this is truly incredible, because it is for all sentient beings. So this creates an unbelievable amount of merit. And it is so important to remember the benefits of bodhicitta.

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