GZPB-19 < GZPB-20 Gyalse Tokme Zangpo - The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas > GZPB-21


རང་གིཞེ་སྡངདགྲ་བོཐུལ། །ཕྱི་རོལདགྲ་བོབཏུལཞིངའཕེལ་བར་འགྱུར། །དེ་ཕྱིརབྱམས་དང་སྙིང་རྗེི་དམག་དཔུངགིས། །རང་རྒྱུདའདུལ་བརྒྱལ་སྲསལག་ལེནཡིན

[AP] The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to subdue the mind,

With the forces of loving kindness and compassion.

For unless the real adversary—my own anger—is defeated,

Outer enemies, though I may conquer them, will continue to appear.


[KM] The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to subdue the mind,

With the forces of loving kindness and compassion.

For unless the real adversary—my own anger—is defeated,

Outer enemies, though I may conquer them, will continue to appear.


[RS] While the enemy of your own anger is unsubdued,

Though you conquer external foes, they will only increase.

Therefore with the militia of love and compassion

Subdue your own mind—This is the practice of Bodhisattvas.


[AB] A bodhisattva’s practice is to tame our mental continuums with the armed forces of love and compassion, 

because, if we haven’t subdued the enemy, which is our own hostility, then even if we have subdued an external enemy, more will come.