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Main Page/Feedback 7

2026-01-11T21:41:44Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Main Page |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=This feedback is out of order, just wanted to register that for me the navigation and quality are great, and my other notes will fill in my suggestions. Thanks again! }}"

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Explore/Patrul Rinpoche's Tradition/Feedback 3

2026-01-11T21:40:15Z

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Explore/Patrul Rinpoche's Tradition/Feedback 2

2026-01-11T21:39:40Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Explore/Patrul Rinpoche's Tradition |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=I'd love to see included Crosby/Skiltons translation, as the intros are superb. Also maybe a few lines about the differences between the translations from the Skt vs from the Tibetan. Khunu Rinpoche's book "Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea" is a lovely book, perhaps it is a re-titled version of what you mention. The Life of Shabkar give..."

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|FeedbackContent=I'd love to see included Crosby/Skiltons translation, as the intros are superb. Also maybe a few lines about the differences between the translations from the Skt vs from the Tibetan.
Khunu Rinpoche's book "Vast as the Heavens, Deep as the Sea" is a lovely book, perhaps it is a re-titled version of what you mention.
The Life of Shabkar gives a great presentation of the every day saturated with bodhicitta life.
The new commentary The Great Hum is extraordinary. Commentary by Minyak Kunzang Sonam, translated by Douglas Duckworth.
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Explore/Patrul Rinpoche's Tradition/Feedback 1

2026-01-11T21:35:31Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Explore/Patrul Rinpoche's Tradition |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=Patrul's wonderful 4 lines would be good to cite earlier in the website as how the prayer corresponds to the Bodhicaryavatara. Some people know those lines as a stand alone prayer but that prayer really comes to life in a different way when they see it is an outline of sorts to this great text. }}"

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|FeedbackContent=Patrul's wonderful 4 lines would be good to cite earlier in the website as how the prayer corresponds to the Bodhicaryavatara. Some people know those lines as a stand alone prayer but that prayer really comes to life in a different way when they see it is an outline
of sorts to this great text.
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Śāntideva/Feedback 1

2026-01-11T21:32:27Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Śāntideva |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=Curious if it'd be helpful to lift out upfront the correlation between the 6PF and the text-or both of Santideva's texts. It is mentioned here and there, but I've found it really useful for students who don't see that right off to open their eyes to how the core Mahayana teachings are woven into the large fabric of texts over and over. }}"

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|FeedbackContent=Curious if it'd be helpful to lift out upfront the correlation between the 6PF and the text-or both of Santideva's texts. It is mentioned here and there, but I've found it really useful for students who don't see that right off to open their eyes to how the core Mahayana teachings are woven into the large fabric of texts over and over.
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Discover/Feedback 12

2026-01-11T21:29:03Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Discover |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=Later in the site the Compendium is co-referred to the Siksasamuccaya-it'd be nice to have them mentioned as the same for those who want to go deeper. }}"

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Discover/Feedback 11

2026-01-11T21:25:30Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Discover |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=The point I made previously could fit in here too. }}"

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Discover/Feedback 10

2026-01-11T21:24:44Z

SusanShannon: Created page with "{{Feedback |PageReviewed=Discover |DateReviewed=2026-01-11 |FeedbackUser=SusanShannon |FeedbackContent=I wonder if it would be useful to mention how one's life changes when the pilot light of bodhicitta is lit? I always tell my students it is as if you get a new assignment in life, whether it is one of changed perspective, or more frequently, opportunities to be of benefit to a greater number of beings. My petri dish for observing this is my own life but more importantly..."

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|FeedbackContent=I wonder if it would be useful to mention how one's life changes when the pilot light of bodhicitta is lit? I always tell my students it is as if you get a new assignment in life, whether it is one of changed perspective, or more frequently, opportunities to be of benefit to a greater number of beings. My petri dish for observing this is my own life but more importantly, what I've seen with the inmates I worked with who awakened their hearts to interconnectedness and love and emerged into lives of service in ways they could never have imagined. I always like what Skilton/Crosby write in their translator's introduction of their translation of the Bodhicaryavatara (pg xxxvi my copy) "As it is, Awakening Mind' risks the possibility of reification by the unwary reader, and so we hope that readers will remember that the arising of the Awakening Mind involves the internal transformation of the individual rather than the evocation of an external entity. This latter is not to be confused with the sense in which Shantideva talks of the Awakening Mind as a force which is active within the universe."

This last sentence in the quote I feel is really important to convey, so people can get the sense that we as individuals open into this force that is there for us to open into, and all the trainings and practices we do will move us into that force, that energy. Versus something people can acquire by simply doing practices without the heart hero's constant intention and without doing their own constant hard work with their kleshas. Many dharma students in the west see these practices as commodities, something to be consumed, but I think it is useful to see that awakening of bodhicitta happens in a certain sense by de-consuming. Hope that makes some sense.
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