In this installment of the podcast, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explains a verse from the Bodhisattvacharyavatara (Way of the Bodhisattva)  ( Tib. བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའི་སྤྱོད་པ་ལ་འཇུག་པ་, changchub sempé chöpa la jukpa) by great Indian master Shantideva about the importance of the mind of Bodhichitta, mind of awakening. Geshe la will explain how this mind, rooted in Love and Compassion can activate great openness and happiness allowing our mind to go from joy to joy. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.

སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལས། From Bodhisattvacaryavatara: 

དེ་བས་སྐྱོ་ངལ་ཀུན་སེལ་བའི། ། That which dispels all discouragement and despondency 

བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་ཀྱི་རྟ་ཞོན་ནས། ། Having mounted the horse of the awakening mind 

བདེ་ནས་བདེ་བར་འགྲོ་བ་ལ། ། Who, when they know of this mind that proceeds from joy to joy 

སེམས་ཤེས་སུ་ཞིག་སྒྱིད་ལུག་འགྱུར། ། Would ever lapse into despondency?  

Order in English: 

That which dispels all discouragement and despondency 

Having mounted the horse of the awakening mind 

Who, when they know of this mind that proceeds from joy to joy 

Would ever lapse into despondency (discouragement)? 

Trans. S. Batchelor  

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