Je Tsong Khapa
Lobsang Drakpa
(1357-1419)
“Carried by the currents of the four violent rivers,
Tied by the tight fetters of karma, hard to reverse,
Thrown into an iron-mesh pit of grasping for true identities,
Completely enshrouded in the heavy gloom of the darkness of unawareness, Unrelentingly tormented by the three types of suffering,
Life after life in limitless compulsive existence –
Having thought about the condition of your mothers
Who have found themselves in situations like these,
Develop a supreme bodhichitta aim.”
From The Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Je Tsong Khapa As translated in: The Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Jey Tsongkhhapa. Translated by Alex Berzin. PDF available from The Berzin Archives.