"Bodhicitta beholds the totality of living beings like a mother does her only son. It is the nectar that is of one taste with being of help to others, hoping neither for reward or future result."
-- Khunu Rinpoche, The Jewel Lamp: A Praise to Bodhicitta, Verse 169
"With bodhicitta one enjoys happiness. With bodhicitta one enjoys even sorrow. With bodhicitta one enjoys what is there. With bodhicitta one enjoys even what is not there.
It is because of bodhicitta that one gives up the pleasure of meditative concentration, and in order to relieve others of their suffering, goes down to the deepest hell as if into a pleasure park."
~ Khunu Lama Tenzin Gyaltsen (1895-1977) — a teacher of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, especially for the Bodhicharyavatara, for which he held Patrul Rinpoche’s lineage, having received it from one of the great khenpos at Dzogchen monastery.
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