The essence of the practice of a bodhisattva is to transcend self clinging and dedicate yourself completely to serving others. It is a practice based on your mind, rather than how your actions might appear externally. True generosity, therefore, is to have no clinging; true discipline is to have no desire; and true patience is to be without hatred.
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Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book The Heart of Compassion: The Thirty-seven Verses on the Practice of a Bodhisattva
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