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There's a word in Polly and Sanskrit that has a lot of meaning for our practice.

My word is Bod body jitter. And literally we could translate it as the heart mind jTA of awakening, Bodi.

On the relative level, Bodi

Baudi JITA refers to compassion and particularly to the aspiration that we're not practicing

for ourselves alone but we can practice with the aspiration that our own awakening be for the benefit of all beings.

And by cultivating this aspiration right from the beginning of our practice, it gives a lot of energy.

As you're going through different difficulties, realizing that we're going through these not

just for ourselves, but our own growing understanding will also benefit everyone else.

And in one way or another we find this compassionate aspiration expressed in many of the Buddhist traditions.

Of course it's central to the Dalai Lama's way of understanding his life and his practice and he wrote something about himself which I find. I find,

what do I find it?

It's particularly endearing.

So he said, speaking of my own experience,

I sometimes wonder why a lot of people like me.

When I think about it, I cannot find in myself any specially good quality except for one small

thing.

That is the kind heart, which I try to explain to others,

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