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generosity, ethical discipline, patience,

perseverance, concentration and

wisdom--- they can also be found in

other, non-bodhisattva practitioners

who are working more towards their

own individual liberation. What makes

the practice of these six factors

perfect is the motivation involved.

In order for one’s practice

of patience to be a practice

of the perfection of patience,

you need the motivation which is

bodhicitta. If your practice is

motivated by bodhicitta--- the

aspiration to attain enlightenment

for the benefit of all---

then your practice becomes

truly a practice of perfection.

當我們談六波羅蜜–

慷慨, 道德的紀律, 耐性, 毅力, 專注和智慧,

(布施, 持戒, 忍辱, 精進, 禪定, 智慧)

這些特質也能在那些

為了自己個人的解脫,

而不是修行菩薩道的人身上發現.

要能讓這六個修習要素完美,

就在於修習的動機.

要能讓耐性 (忍辱) 的修習

成為忍辱的波羅蜜,

就要以菩提心為動機.

如果你的動機出自菩提心–

以得到覺悟為萬物求福祉為志,

此時, 你就真的修向完美之境.