The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation

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    1. With a determination to accomplish
    The highest welfare for all sentient beings
    Who Surpass even a wish-granting jewel
    I will learn to hold them supremely dear.

    2. Whenever I associate with others I will learn
    To think of myself as the lowest among all
    And respectfully hold others to be supreme
    From the very depths of my heart.

    3. In all actions I will learn to search into my mind
    And as soon as an afflictive emotion arises
    Endangering myself and others
    Will firmly face and avert it.

    4. I will learn to cherish beings of bad nature
    And those pressed by strong sins and sufferings
    As if I had found a precious
    Treasure very difficult to find.

    5. When others out of jealousy treat me badly
    With abuse, slander, and so on.
    I will learn to take all loss
    And offer the victory to them.

    6. When one whom I have benifited with great hope
    Unreasonably hurts me very badly,
    I will learn to view that person
    As an excellent spiritual guide.

    7. In short, I will learn to offer to everyone without exception
    All help and happiness directly and indirectly
    And respectfully take upon myself
    All harm and suffering of my mothers.

    8. I will learn to keep all these practices
    Undefiled by the stains of the eight worldly conceptions
    And by understanding all phenomena as like illusions
    Be released from the bondage of attachment.

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