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Responsibility / Commitment / Bodhisattva Vow

• “I take responsibility to benefit my old mothers.”
• Resolve to practice bodhicitta in this and all future lives.
• Sense of responsibility for others comes from love and compassion. This is relative samaya.
• Recite bodhicitta prayer to bring everyone to the state of buddhahood.
• Have a want to liberate, as if there is nothing else to do.
• First generate compassion. Then contemplate a method to free them.
• Establish beings in higher realms, temporarily. Seek to empty the six realms. Seek to establish all beings in buddhahood, free from two extremes of samsara and nirvana.
• Taking bodhisattva vow is like getting married to all sentient beings. It has to do with benefiting beings.
• We have the responsibility.
• Bodhisattva vow is a promise to buddha and sentient beings.
• Promise to keep this forever.
• Parents are in burning house – decide what to do, quickly. The goal is to remove all sufferings of all beings for all time.

• Become someone who can liberate beings. To do this, we need compassion.
• A person bound by karma cannot liberate others. Therefore enlightenment is necessary.
• If you wish to become a doctor, that is meritorious. If you wish to become buddha to help all sentient beings, that is even more meritorious. The benefit of a genuine thought is measureless.
• Re aspiration, there is king like, boatsman like, herdsman like.