GZPB-15 < GZPB-16 Gyalse Tokme Zangpo - The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas > GZPB-17
།བདག་གི་བུ་བཞིན་གཅེས་པར་བསྐྱངས་བའི་མིས། །བདག་ལ་དགྲ་བཞིན་ལྟ་བར་བྱེད་ན་ཡང༌། །ནད་ཀྱིས་བཏབ་པའི་བུ་ལ་མ་བཞིན་དུ། །ལྷག་པར་བརྩེ་བ་རྒྱལ་སྲས་ལག་ལེན་ཡིན། [AP] Even if others whom I have cared for like children of my own, Should turn upon me and treat me as an enemy, To regard them only with special fondness and affection, As a mother would her ailing child—this is the practice of all the bodhisattvas. [KM] Even if a person you have cared for as your own child Treats you as his or her worst enemy, Lavish him or her with loving attention Like a mother caring for her ill child — this is the practice of a bodhisattva. [RS] Even if a person for whom you’re cared Like your own child regards you as an enemy, Cherish him specially, like a mother Does her child who is stricken by sickness—This is the practice of Bodhisattvas. [AB] A bodhisattva’s practice is, even if a person whom we’ve taken care of, cherishing him like our own child, were to regard us as his enemy, to have special affection for him, like a mother toward her child stricken with an illness. |