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please go to be here now network.com slash Joseph. From one perspective you can say that a major part of our practice comes down to the awareness of and purification of motivation.

There's one Tibetan teaching which expresses this very succinctly it says everything rests on the tip of motivation.

In Western cultures, we usually measure the value of our actions by the effectiveness of the

outcome, by its success or failure.

The Dalai Lama in one teaching,

he said a very different frame of reference, which would be a very different way of looking at how we live in the world.

He said that the true value of an action is not measured by whether it's successful or not, but

by the motivation behind it.

So when we look at our actions in the world and we assess their effectiveness, it's really

a call to looking at our motivation, what was behind that action, what motivated it.

We can't control all the conditions in the world.

You know, sometimes regardless of what we do, sometimes there's praise, sometimes there's blame,

sometimes the success, sometimes there's failure.

But we do have the possibility of training our hearts.

Within the Buddhist teachings, there's one particular motivation

that is so vast and so skillful

and so ennobling of our lives that it can become the basis the foundation for our entire life's journey. This is the motivation that is called Bodijita that we've spoken about at different times.

Baudi Jita means the heart mind of awakening,

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