“Swept away by the current of the four powerful rivers,
Tied by the tight bonds of karma, so hard to undo,
Caught in the iron net of self-grasping,
Completely enveloped by the total darkness of ignorance,
Endlessly reborn in cyclic existence,
Ceaselessly tormented by the three sufferings –
Thinking that all mothers are in such a condition,
Generate the supreme mind of enlightenment.”
From The Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Je Tsong Khapa
As translated in: The Three Principles of the Path by Lama Tsong Khapa. Translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. PDF available from FPMT.
Photo: His Holiness the Dalai Lama giving the 2012 Jangchup Lamrim Teachings, Drepung Monastery, Mundgod, India, December 2012 © Fabien Pochez/JLTOC
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