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From Bodhicitta
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The more you try to care for your body, the more sensitive it becomes, and the more times it falls in the cycle of transmigration. +
But no matter how many times it is reborn, the whole earth will not be enough to satisfy its desires. Who then will meet its wishes? +
By seeking to achieve the impossible—satisfaction in the world—you come to face afflictions and hopelessness. But he who has no expectations with regard to anything will have undecaying happiness. +
Therefore, one should not cultivate sensual desires. The truly good cannot be grasped in terms of desire. +
In the end the body will turn to ashes. Moved by another, it has no movement of its own, this loathsome, impure image. Why do I hold on to it? +
Of what use to me is this machine, whether it is alive or dead? In what way is it any better than a clod of earth? Why don’t you die, oh my sense of self! +
Wherever his mind, crazed by a false sense of happiness, finds enjoyment, there the object itself will become a source of a suffering a thousand times stronger than this pleasure. +
My partiality toward my body has been to no avail, it has brought me only suffering. What good would it do to love or hate this body, which is only like a dead tree trunk? +
I have protected it, the vultures and the jackals will devour it, yet it does not love me and it does not hate them. Why should I love it so? +
I become incensed when it is treated harshly, I am delighted when it is pampered; but if the body itself knows nothing, for whose sake are all my travails? +
We often think that our true friends are those who care for this body of ours; but everybody cares for their own bodies. Why are they not dear to me? +
Therefore, I renounce my body without regret, for the benefit of the whole world. If after this I maintain it in spite of its many defects, it is only as an instrument of action. +
Enough with the life-paths of the world. I will follow the wise, keeping in mind the Discourse on Watchfulness, avoiding sloth and torpor. +
Therefore, in order to cut through the veils, I will collect my mind, pulling it away from wayward paths, fixing it on the true object. +
Therefore, the wise do not want this kind of enjoyment. For fear will come to the person who wants it. But, should the same fear come of itself, the wise would remain firm and wait. +
Distraction is not possible in one whose body and mind are withdrawn. Therefore, one should renounce the world and abandon the inner discourse of desire. +
There have been many famous and wealthy men; of their wealth and fame we know no more. Where have they gone? +
Some despise me; why rejoice then when others praise me? Some praise me; why be dejected when others despise me? +
Sentient beings have different inclinations. Not even the victorious conquerors could please them all, how much less an ignorant person like myself! Therefore, why should I be concerned with pleasing or displeasing the world? +
They despise those who have nothing, and resent those who have everything. How can one find pleasure in associating with those whose company is only a source of suffering? +
