The most happy thing in my life, the most fulfilling thing, is to work for and to benefit sentient beings. Even just the mere thought to cause happiness for sentient beings, to benefit them, to free them from suffering—this is the BEST offering to all the Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the best puja, this is what pleases their holy minds most.
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One must practice with the bodhisattva attitude every day. People can't see your mind, what people see is a manifestation of your attitude in your actions of body and speech. Pay attention to your attitude all the time, guard it as if you are the police, or like a nanny cares for a child, like a bodyguard, or like you are the guru and your mind is your disciple.
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The office is a place for Dharma practice. When one goes to the office, dealing with people, one has to recognize it's a place to practice lam-rim, the three principles of the path, tantra, and the six paramitas. The six paramitas fit very well with daily life—they offer protection for you. Everything is there.
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When you recognize your problem comes from your concept or your concept is the problem, you don't blame others
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The essence of collecting the most extensive merit in your daily life is through the attitude of always keeping your motivation in bodhicitta, the thought to benefit all sentient beings. The more sentient beings you think about, the more merit you collect.
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Try to think, whatever you do, 24 hours a day, of sentient beings: when you chant mantras, eat, go to sleep, go to work, and when you are talking; if you can, keep your mind in that thought.
Then, with every action you collect numberless merits. Not only do you have a happy, satisfying, fulfilling life every day and every moment, but, especially, it is the best thing for the future, and not only liberation from samsara, but enlightenment.
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If you are suffering, use it as the cause to bring happiness to others. This way, whatever kind of life experience you have, you use it on the path. There is no interruption to Dharma practice and one’s life is most beneficial.
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Each one of us is responsible for all other living beings’ happiness besides our own. As a result, your loving kindness is the most wish-fulfilling thing in life, more precious than anything else in the world. That makes for a most satisfying, fulfilling life.
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Whatever problem one experiences, one can think about the benefits of problems and how they are beneficial for one’s own life, to develop one’s mind in compassion, to develop loving kindness, patience, wisdom, and all the positive qualities for the path to liberation.
By thinking of the benefits, one develops this precious quality, this most healthy positive way of thinking that brings happiness, and that stops you from harming yourself and harming others.
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Use problems as ornaments, seeing them as extremely precious, because they make you achieve enlightenment quickly, by getting you to achieve bodhicitta. Experience these problems on behalf of all sentient beings, giving all happiness to sentient beings. This is the ornament.
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Dedicating your life to achieving lam-rim realizations, with the goal of liberating numberless beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bringing them to enlightenment is what I regard as the most important thing in the world.
