02. Meditation 1
01.11.2025
Whoever we think we are - this is not us. Whatever we grasp at, our karmic script, is a brief episode. We need to identify with our Buddha seed. We need to connect with ourselves as being a future Buddha, a baby Buddha. Our seed of enlightenment is our compassionate heart, we have carried it with us throughout all our lives. When we realise it directly, our very subtle mind, it is the mind of great compassion. Is this not worth nurturing and developing every day?
"I will liberate myself and all living beings so they can experience that mind of great compassion."
Meditation from Mirror of Dharma - the verses on the 3PAOTP.:
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Swept along by the currents of the four powerful rivers [birth, ageing, sickness and death],
Tightly bound by the chains of karma so hard to release,
Ensnared within the iron net of self-grasping,
Completely enveloped by the pitch-black darkness of ignorance,
Taking rebirth after rebirth in boundless samsara,
And unceasingly tormented by the three sufferings [painful feelings, changing suffering and pervasive suffering] –
Through contemplating the state of your mothers, all living beings, in conditions such as these,
Generate the supreme mind of bodhichitta.
Tightly bound by the chains of karma so hard to release,
Ensnared within the iron net of self-grasping,
Completely enveloped by the pitch-black darkness of ignorance,
Taking rebirth after rebirth in boundless samsara,
And unceasingly tormented by the three sufferings [painful feelings, changing suffering and pervasive suffering] –
Through contemplating the state of your mothers, all living beings, in conditions such as these,
Generate the supreme mind of bodhichitta.