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The following text is an excerpt from writings of the late Buddhist saint and teacher “Shanti-Deva”, who is highly regarded by the Dalai Lama himself. This text is called “Bodhi-Charyavatara”, meaning “The Path of Light”. I hope it brings you new hope and inspiration.

“I would rather become a soother of all sorrows of all creatures. May I be a balm to the sick, a healer and servitor, until sickness never comes again. May I become an unfailing store for the poor, and serve them with manifold things for their need. My own being and my pleasures all my righteousness in the past present and future, I surrender indifferently so that all creatures may win to their end. The stillness lies in surrender of all things and my spirit desires this stillness. I yield myself to to all living beings to deal with me as they list. They may smite me or revile me, bestrew me with dust, play with my body, laugh, and wanton. I have given them my body, why shall I care? Let them make me do whatever works please them, but may never mishap befall any of them for any reason. May all who slander me or do me hurt or jeer of them by reason of me. May all who slander me or do me hurt gain a share of Enlightenment. I would be a protector of the unprotected, and guide of the wayfarers, a ship, a dyke, and a bridge for them who seek the further shore, a lamp for them who need a lamp and light and a bed for those who need a bed, and a slave for those who need a slave. In short, let all the wrong that thou hast done for the sake of thy own self to others fall upon thine own self for the sake of one’s fellow creatures.”

(Taken from “The Pilgrammage of Buddhism” by J.B. Pratt)

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