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Today's Reading · 2026-08-25
As the earth and other elements are for the various service of the countless creatures dwelling in the whole of space, so may I in various wise support the whole sphere of life lodged in space, until all be at peace.
May I be a balm to the sick, their healer and servitor, until sickness come never again.
— Śāntideva, Bodhicaryāvatāra, ch. III, trans. L. D. Barnett, 1909
…desirous of the science without a master, of self-restraint and tranquillity, who apply themselves to the commandment of the Tathâgata to learn to understand causes and effects, for the sake of their own complete Nirvâna.
— Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka, ch. 3, trans. H. Kern, 1884
All the hundred thousands of myriads of kotis of creatures who in this world are suffering troubles will, if they hear the name of the Bodhisattva Mahâsattva Avalokitesvara, be released from that mass of troubles.
— Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka, ch. XXIV, trans. Kern
What would change if you read this as a love letter from the source?
A new teaching, question, and dispatch surface here each day, rotating deterministically through the full corpus.