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By my implementing what has to be practiced and what has to be abandoned according to your advice, please quickly eliminate all dangers I pray.<ref> Stracke, ''Entrance for the Children'', 23. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/</ref> | By my implementing what has to be practiced and what has to be abandoned according to your advice, please quickly eliminate all dangers I pray.<ref> Stracke, ''Entrance for the Children'', 23. https://happymonkspublication.org/product/bodhisattvacharyavatara-chapter-1-10-commentary/</ref> | ||
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The great contemporary Kagyu master Thrangu Rinpoche ends this section of his commentary to ''The Way of the Bodhisattva'' by explaining how we should think as we make our confession. | |||
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|quote-text=In the presence of all the buddhas we now make our confession and ask for the support of the Three Jewels by thinking, "In their omniscience the buddhas know all the faults and misdeeds that I have been doing. When I confess, they see that I am confessing all the wrong that I have been doing. Before them I will now do what is wholesome and forever turn away from what is unwholesome." | |||
<ref>Thrangu Rinpoche, ''A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life of Shantideva: A Commentary by the Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche'', trans. Ken and Katia Holmes and Thomas Doctor (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2016), 29.</ref> | |||
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