Practice and the Mind
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1. Those who wish to guard their practice
Should very attentively guard their minds,
For those who do not guard their minds
Will be unable to guard their practice.
2. In this (world) unsubdued and crazed elephants
Are incapable of causing such harms
As the miseries of the deepest hell
Which can be caused by the unleashed elephant of my mind.
3. But if the elephant of my mind is firmly bound
On all sides by the rope of mindfulness,
All fears will cease to exist
And all virtues will come into my hand.
- Shantideva, /A Guide to the Bodhisattvas Way of Life,/ trans. by
Stephen Batchelor
from /Everyday Mind,/ edited by Jean Smith, a /Tricycle/ book //
