Comments on: A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life by Shantideva https://www.dorjeshugden.com/prayers/other-prayers/a-guide-to-the-bodhisattvas-way-of-life-by-shantideva/ The Protector whose time has come Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Agnes Kohl https://www.dorjeshugden.com/prayers/other-prayers/a-guide-to-the-bodhisattvas-way-of-life-by-shantideva/comment-page-1/#comment-25382 Agnes Kohl Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:29:12 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=1280#comment-25382 "Although today I am healthy, Well-nourished and unafflicted, Life is momentary and deceptive; The body is like an object on loan for but a minute." With this verse I learn the truth of impermanence and how if I am fortunate to be human this life with no physical deficiencies, I should devote my body to benefiting others. Thus, leads to understand this verse: "If I agreeably honor and entrust myself (to others), They will bring me benefit and happiness, But if I entrust myself to these disturbing conceptions, In the future they will bring only misery and harm." Happiness is to live for others and misery is to live for one's afflicted needs. “Although today I am healthy,
Well-nourished and unafflicted,
Life is momentary and deceptive;
The body is like an object on loan for but a minute.”

With this verse I learn the truth of impermanence and how if I am fortunate to be human this life with no physical deficiencies, I should devote my body to benefiting others. Thus, leads to understand this verse:

“If I agreeably honor and entrust myself (to others),
They will bring me benefit and happiness,
But if I entrust myself to these disturbing conceptions,
In the future they will bring only misery and harm.”

Happiness is to live for others and misery is to live for one’s afflicted needs.

]]> By: Free Spirit | Daily Devotions for Dining with God https://www.dorjeshugden.com/prayers/other-prayers/a-guide-to-the-bodhisattvas-way-of-life-by-shantideva/comment-page-1/#comment-17405 Free Spirit | Daily Devotions for Dining with God Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:47:00 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=1280#comment-17405 [...] We constructed these walls of lusts, produced by our ego, and molded with selfish intentions. This entire reality, devoid of Almighty God, is but our own illusion, conceived when we willfully denied the authority of our Creator, disobeyed His commands and sought to satisfy our desires through our own will. And how shall I ever have happiness If, in a net of attachment within my mind, There dwell the guardians of the prison of cyclic existence, These (disturbing conceptions) that become my butchers and tormentors in hell? [Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, 4:35]. [...] [...] We constructed these walls of lusts, produced by our ego, and molded with selfish intentions. This entire reality, devoid of Almighty God, is but our own illusion, conceived when we willfully denied the authority of our Creator, disobeyed His commands and sought to satisfy our desires through our own will. And how shall I ever have happiness If, in a net of attachment within my mind, There dwell the guardians of the prison of cyclic existence, These (disturbing conceptions) that become my butchers and tormentors in hell? [Shantideva, A Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, 4:35]. [...]

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