“Meditating on repaying kindness [which all sentient beings have shown you when they were your mother in previous lives]:
- Even though you do not recognize them due to birth, death, and transmigration, it would be shameful
- To neglect those who have been kind does not accord with the well-mannered
- As it would be inappropriate to repay the benefit with something contaminated, one should liberate them from ignorance
- How to meditate on the essential points separately”
From Textual Outline for the Medium Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Trijang Rinpoche As translated in: OUTLINE of Middle Length Lam-Rim with Trijang Rinpoche’s Additional Outlines by Lama Tsongkhapa (and Trijang Rinpoche). Translated by Philip Quarcoo. Unpublished DRAFT translation (May 2012) by FPMT, Inc. Download the PDF here.