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morality, patience, perseverance, strong compassion enabled him to and enlightenment from those
concentration and wisdom. collect much more extensive merit people. Similarly, even if you just
and purify far greater negative look after a pet with this motivation,
To practice the perfection of karma accumulated in the past. you will receive enlightenment
wisdom, for example, you can think For example, when in one life as quickly from that sentient being.
that you, the care-giver, the action brothers, they encountered a family
of taking care of the other person of five tigers dying of starvation, These teachings were compiled
and the person you are taking care Maitreya Buddha did not offer and edited by Ven. Joan Nicell, and
of are all empty of true existence his body to them whereas Guru published in 2015 by Amitabha
and merely labelled by the mind. Shakyamuni Buddha did. Buddhist Centre, Singapore. Now
Motivated by bodhicitta, everything available as a free audiobook.
you do to take care of someone else In the same way, if you are able
becomes a cause of enlightenment to generate strong compassion NOTES
and a quick path to enlightenment. for your children, and instead of 1 Wishing to experience happiness
being driven by attachment to and to avoid suffering; to gain
In a Buddhist text, it is mentioned them, you use them to practice material things and to avoid losing
that even though Maitreya Buddha Dharma, your children will give you them; to be praised and to avoid
generated compassion and enlightenment. criticism; to have a good reputation
bodhicitta much earlier than did and to avoid a bad one.
Guru Shakyamuni Buddha, Guru Also, if motivated by compassion,
Shakyamuni Buddha achieved you do a job that entails taking care Source: www.lamayeshe.com EH
enlightenment first because his of other people’s children or the
compassion was much stronger. His elderly, you will receive realizations

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