Bodhicitta Everyday

From Pema Chodron at http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1469

Shantideva says, "Virtuous thoughts do rise, brief and transient, in
the world." We've all had this experience: you're walking along,
you're complaining and judging everyone, you feel like you're on a
steady diet of poison, you're driving everyone crazy—especially
yourself—and then, BAM! Like a flash of lightning in the dark,
something gets through your self-absorption. Sometimes it's just a car
backfiring, or maybe it's a dharma teaching, but it wakes you up out
of your self-absorption and you see that the sun has come out, the sky
is beautiful, and there are birds flying across it. Suddenly the world
is very large. Everybody knows the experience of being completely self-
absorbed and then something gets through. That's a flash of bodhichitta.