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|quote-text=When will I become someone that pacifies the sufferings of the lower realms with medicine, food and the like? That which are parts of my collection of happiness, built up from clouds of merits built up by generosity and so forth. How wonderful would it be if sentient beings were free from suffering? May they be free from suffering. May I bring about that freedom.<ref>Stracke, ''Entrance for the Children: Chapter Nine'', 82, https://research.tsadra.org/img_auth.php/9/9c/Stracke_Fedor_trans_2016_The_Entrance_for_the_Children_of_the_Conquerors_Happy_Monk_Publication.pdf.</ref> | |quote-text=When will I become someone that pacifies the sufferings of the lower realms with medicine, food and the like? That which are parts of my collection of happiness, built up from clouds of merits built up by generosity and so forth. How wonderful would it be if sentient beings were free from suffering? May they be free from suffering. May I bring about that freedom.<ref>Stracke, ''Entrance for the Children: Chapter Nine'', 82, https://research.tsadra.org/img_auth.php/9/9c/Stracke_Fedor_trans_2016_The_Entrance_for_the_Children_of_the_Conquerors_Happy_Monk_Publication.pdf.</ref> | ||
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In verse 86 of his ''Commentary on Bodhicitta'', Nāgārjuna explains that this sense of compassion for beings should be so strong that we are willing to give up the most refined and blissful states of meditative concentration and instead | In verse 86 of his ''Commentary on Bodhicitta'', Nāgārjuna explains that this sense of compassion for beings should be so strong that we are willing to give up the most refined and blissful states of meditative concentration and to instead plunge headlong into the worst of the hellish states. | ||
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