1. With the determination to achieve the greater good for the benefit of all sentient beings, more precious than a magical jewel that realizes desires, I will learn to cherish and treasure them in the highest degree.
2. Whenever I am in the company of other people, I will learn to think of myself as the most insignificant among them, and with all due respect, to consider them supreme from the bottom of my heart.
3. In all my actions, I will learn to examine my mind and whenever a negative emotion arises, endangering myself and others, I will steadfastly confront it and avoid it.
4. I will treasure beings who have perverse nature and those upon whom heavy negativities and sufferings weigh, as if I had found a precious treasure, very difficult to find.
5. When others, out of envy, mistreat my person, or insult and slander, I will learn to accept defeat and give them victory.
6. When someone whom I have helped with great hope, to hurt or injure my person even for no reason, I will learn to see this other person as an excellent spiritual guide.
7. In short, I will learn to offer everyone, without exception, all help and happiness, by direct and indirect means, and to take upon myself, in secrecy, all the ills and sufferings of those who were my mothers.
8. I will learn to keep these practices free from the taints of the eight worldly concerns, and by understanding all phenomena as illusory, I will be delivered from the slavery's attachment.
The 8 worldly concerns are:
1. Wanting to be praised - 2. Do not want to be criticized
3. Wanting pleasure - 4. Do not want pain
5. Want to win - 6. Do not wanna lose
7. Wanting to be recognized - 8. Do not want to be ignored
-> by bodisatwa Geshe Langri Tangpa (1054-1123) Tibet
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