No longer the long book, now the reciting text is printed as a small handy booklet and also bilingual as well.:-)
The day started with an empowerment ceremony and Rinpoche teaches that the motivation for receiving empowerment should be with the recognition that samsara is suffering and with the understanding that sentient beings suffering has been our past parents and had cared for us in the past as per our current life parents, hence it is for the motivation of all sentient beings that we want to renounce from suffering.
(Imagine how our current parents cared for us in this life & imagine the many many lives of parents who had cared for us in the past and our foes and friends in the current & past lives the suffering beings...)
The Motivation Prayer is really aspiring:
"I vow to attain the most perfect and precious Buddhahood quickly
so that all sentient beings, boundless as the sky,
And especially those who hate me,
those who harm me, and those who create obstacles on my path
may attain liberation and all-knowingness,
may experience happiness,
may be separated from suffering and
may attain Buddhahood" :-)
OM MANI PADME HUM
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