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Bodhisattva Attitude – How to Dedicate Your Life to Others by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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ShrutSangam GyanBhandars JainTatvaGyanshala

Bodhisattva Attitude – How to Dedicate Your Life to Others by Lama Zopa Rinpoche brings together several motivations taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to be used first thing each morning to generate a bodhicitta motivation. Rinpoche particularly emphasizes the need for have a very clear direction and purpose in life. Enlightenment depends on first generating bodhicitta, and training our minds in these motivations and in the bodhisattva attitude helps us to do that. In some ways, these Bodhisattva Attitude verses are reminiscent of the famous prayer attributed to St. Francis, which directs our lives to selflessness and altruism. Similarly, this bodhisattva attitude opens our hearts to others and directs our minds towards enlightenment. Read more