GZPB-33 < GZPB-34 Gyalse Tokme Zangpo - The Thirty-Seven Practices of All the Bodhisattvas > GZPB-35


རྩུབ་མོའི་ཚིགགིསགཞན་སེམསའཁྲུགའགྱུར་ཞིང༌། །རྒྱལ་བའི་སྲསཀྱིསྤྱོད་ཚུལཉམས་འགྱུརབས། །དེ་ཕྱིརགཞནགྱིཡིད་དུ་མི་འོང་བའི། །ཚིག་རྩུབསྤོང་བརྒྱལ་སྲསལག་ལེནཡིན

[AP] The practice of all the bodhisattvas is to avoid harsh words,

Which others might find unpleasant or distasteful,

Since abusive language upsets the minds of others,

And thereby undermines a bodhisattva’s conduct.


[KM] Abusive language upsets others

And undermines the ethics of a bodhisattva.

So, don’t upset people or

Speak abusively — this is the practice of a bodhisattva.


[RS] Harsh words disturb the minds of others

And cause deterioration in a Bodhisattva’s conduct.

Therefore give up harsh words

Which are unpleasant to others—

This is the practice of Bodhisattvas.


[AB] A bodhisattva’s practice is to rid ourselves of harsh language displeasing to the minds of others, 

because harsh words disturb others’ minds and cause our bodhisattva ways of behavior to decline.