Nectar of the mind.

*Nectar of the mind.*

I bow to the Spiritual Friends of the Supreme Vehicle,
Source of everything good in samsara and nirvana.
By the gracious Lama's blessings
May my mind be purified with the three kinds of faith.


By the gracious Lama's blessings,
Knowing how hard to obtain and how easely destroyed is this precious human life,
In all my actions, according to their karmic effect, mat I try
to do what is right and avoid what is wrong
And develop a genuine determination to be free from
samsara, as I train in the preliminaries.

By the gracious Lama's blessings,
May I purify the untruth of duality into the space of voidness
And practice the profound exchange of my own and others'
happiness and suffering;
Meditating continually on the two aspects of Bodhichitta.

By the gracious Lama's blessings,
May I see whatever adverse events and sufferings befall me
As trick of the evil spirit of ego-clinging
and use them as the path of Bodhichitta.

By the gracious Lama's blessings,
May I condense my lifetime's practice into a single essence
By applying throughout my life the five powers of pure
determination, pure practice,
Accumulation of merit, purification of obscurations, and prayers of aspiration.

By the gracious Lama's blessings,
When everything arises as the antidote to ego-clinging
And my mind finds freedom, with happiness and confidence
May I take all adverse circumstances as the path.

By the gracious Lama's blessings,
May I keep my promises, be free of hypocrisy
Have no partiality and little outward show;
Protecting the commitments of the mind training as I would
my own life.

In essence, by the gracious Lama's blessings,
May I genuinely train my mind
According to all precepts which further the two aspects
of Boddhichitta
And attain realisation of the Supreme Vehicle within this very lifetime.

By the merit of this heartfelt aspiration
To practice the Seven Point Mind Training,
Essence of the minds of the peerless Lord and his disciples,
May all beings accomplish enlightenment.

Written by Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo at Kyishö Nyethang in front of precious image of glorious Atisha. _/\_