Homage to Śāntideva
Throughout all your lives, you took the protector Mañjuśrī,
As the lord of your buddha family, and for the sake of all,
Illuminated the excellent path of the bodhisattva’s way of life,
To Śāntideva, heir of the sugatas, I pay homage!
Khenpo Sherab Sangpo, a professor of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma Lineage (bodhicittasangha.org), offered teachings on "A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life" by Shantideva. This text provides profound guidance on how to train the mind in generating bodhicitta and practicing the six pāramitās of generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, meditative concentration, and the wisdom of emptiness (śūnyatā). The first five transcendent perfections correspond to the accumulation of the merit of skillful means (compassion) and the sixth to the accumulation of wisdom. These trainings in cultivating bodhicitta and the six pāramitās are the heart practices of the bodhisattvas on the Mahāyāna path of enlightenment. See the study resources for this class series on our BodhiHeart Blog: www.bodhicittasangha.org/shan....
Those who wish to overcome the abundant suffering of mundane existence,
Those who wish to remove the suffering of living beings,
Those who wish to have experience of the merit of joy,
Should never turn away from bodhicitta.
-Quote from "A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life" by Shantideva