Becoming Bodhisattvas Quotes

“And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. —The Way of the Bodhisattva, v. 10.55”
― Pema Chödrön, Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action

“When my children were teenagers, I took them to meet the Sixteenth Karmapa. As they weren’t Buddhists, I asked His Holiness to say something that didn’t require any understanding of the dharma. Without hesitating, he told them: “You are going to die; and when you do, you will take nothing with you but your state of mind.”
― Pema Chödrön, Becoming Bodhisattvas: A Guidebook for Compassionate Action