The Jewel Rosary of an Awakening Warrior Byang-chub-sems-dpa' nor-bu'i phreng-ba Bodhisattvamaniavali

Composed by the great Indian pandit Dipamkara Shrijana (Palden Atisha)

  Homage to great compassion.

   Homage to all spiritual masters. 

   Homage to the deities of devotion. 

   Abandon all doubts and cherish 

   exertion for accomplishing the practice. 

   Abandon sleepiness, dullness and laziness 

   and always exert enthusiastic effort. (i.e. effort) 

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   With recollection, alertness and watchfulness 

   always guard every door of the senses. 

   Three times during the day and night, again and again 

   investigate your mental continuum. (i.e. guarding the doors and the mind) 

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   Proclaim your own faults

   and seek not mistakes in others. 

   Hide your own good qualities 
   but proclaim the good qualities of others. (i.e. exchanging self for others) 

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   Reject acquisitions and honours 

   and always reject desire for fame. 

   Desire little, be content 

   and repay acts of kindness. (i.e. contentment) 

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   Meditate on love and compassion 

   and stabilize the awakening mind. (i.e. bodhicitta) 

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   Avoid the ten unwholesome actions (i.e. right action) 

   and always stabilize your faith. (i.e. faith) 

   Conquer anger and arrogance 

   and possess a humble mind. (i.e. humility) 

   Avoid wrong livelihoods 

   and live a life of truth (dharma). (i.e. truth) 

   Abandon all worldly possessions 

   and be adorned by the gems of superiors. (i.e. ) 

   Abandon all frivolities 

   and abide in solitude. (i.e. solitude) 

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   Abandon all senseless talk 

   and always control your speech. (i.e. right speech) 

   When seeing your master or teacher (i.e. interacting with others) 

   perform services with respect. 

   Towards a person having the eye of the doctrine 

   and towards sentient beings who are beginners 

   develop the recognition of them as teachers. 

   When seeing any sentient beings, develop 

   the recognition of them as parents and children. 

   Abandon misleading friends 

   and rely on virtuous spiritual companions. 

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   Abandon minds of anger and unhappiness 

   and wherever you go be happy. 

   Abandon attachment to everything 

   and abide free from attachment. 

   Attachment will never procure you a happy rebirth; 

   it kills the life of liberation. 

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   Wherever you see practices (leading to) happiness, 

   always exert effort in them. 

   Whatever you have started to do, 

   accomplish that very thing first. 

   Do everything well in this way, 

   otherwise nothing will be achieved. 

   Always be apart from liking evil. 

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   Whenever a pompous mind arises, (i.e. some antidotes) 

   flatten such arrogance. 

   Recall the teachings of your master. 

   When a cowardly mind arises, 

   praise the sublimity of the mind. 

   Whenever objects of attraction or aversion arise, 

   meditate on the emptiness of both; 

   view them as illusions and emanations. 

   When hearing any offensive words, 

   view them as an echo. 

   When your body is afflicted by harm, 

   view this as your previous actions. (i.e. result of karma) 

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   Abide well in solitude, beyond town limits, 

   like the corpses of wild game. 

   Be by yourself, conceal yourself 

   and dwell without attachment. (i.e. solitude) 

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   Always stabilize (awareness of) your yidam and,

   whenever laziness or lassitude arise, 

   enumerate these faults to yourself 

   and feel remorse from your heart. 

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   If you see others, (i.e. interacting with others) 

   speak calmly and sincerely. 

   Avoid a wrathful and frowning expression 

   and always remain cheerful. 

   When seeing others, continuously 

   be pleased to give without being miserly. 

   Discard all jealousy. 

   To protect the mind of another, 

   avoid all conflict 

   and always have patience. 

   Do not be a flatterer or fickle, 

   but always be capable of remaining steadfast.

   Avoid belittling others and 

   remain respectful in your manners. 

   When giving advice to others, 

   have compassion and thoughts for their benefit

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   Do not disparage spiritual doctrines 

   and be intent on whichever you admire. 

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   Through the door of the ten dharma practices, 

   exert an effort throughout both day and night. (i.e. effort) 

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   Whatever virtues are collected during the three times, 

   dedicate them for the unsurpassable great awakening. (i.e. dedication)

   Distribute your merit for all sentient beings. 

   Always offer the seven-limbed prayer 

   and great aspirations for the path. 

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   If you act in this way, the two accumulations of merit and wisdom will be accomplished. 

   Also, with the eradication of the two obscurations, 

   thus fulfilling the purpose of having gained a human form, 

   unsurpassable full awakening will be achieved. (i.e. result)

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   The gem of faith, the gem of ethics, 

   the gem of generosity, the gem of hearing, 

   the gem of consideration, 

   the gem of shame and the gem of intelligence: 

   these are the seven supreme gems. 

   These seven gems are never exhausted. 

   Do not tell this to non-humans. 

   Examine your speech when amidst many people.

   Examine your mind when living alone.

This has been composed by the Indian master Dipamkara Shrijnana, the Glorious Illuminator, the Essence of Primordial Awareness.

Translated from the Tibetan by Sherpa Tulku and Brian Beresford, for Wisdom Publications, London.