Shantideva on kindness of Buddhas and Sentient Beings (in Tib. & Eng.)

In this brief teaching, Geshe Sonam Ngodup explores the reason why the kindness of the enlightened ones (the Buddhas) and kindness of Sentient beings is equal. Also, why we depend on sentient beings for our own Spiritual development towards Enlightenment. He explains this using a verse from Bodhicaryāvatāra by Shantideva. Geshe la teaches in Tibetan and his teachings are translated by Venerable Khedrup.  

 སེམས་ཅན་ཐམས་ཅད་སངས་རྒྱས་དང་བཀའ་དྲིན་ཆེ་ཆུང་འདྲ་བའི་རྒྱུ་མཚན།  

The reason why the Buddhas and all sentient beings are similarly kind.   

From Shantideva's Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra  སྤྱོད་འཇུག་ལས། སེམས་ཅན་རྣམས་དང་རྒྱལ་བ་ལ།  

A Buddha's qualities are gained སངས་རྒྱས་ཆོས་འགྲུབ་འདྲ་བ་ལ།  

From sentient beings and Conquerors (Buddhas) alike,  

རྒྱལ་ལ་གུས་བྱེད་དེ་བཞིན་ཏུ།  So why do I not respect them (sentient beings) 

 སེམས་ཅན་ལ་མིན་ཅི་ཡི་ཚུལ།  In the same way I respect Conquerors?   

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