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Nagarjuna's Aspiration
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Text from:  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4886/nagarjuna1.htm
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L1 : [Taking refuge & humbling oneself]
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\          Prostration to the Triple Gem!  
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L1 : [The goal: Perfection of patience, Union of The Two Truths]
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\          Through each of my lives in samsaric states 
\          Until I achieve the state of patience toward phenomena, 
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L1 : [Wishing for a precious human life]
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\          May I never be born in the three lower realms; 
\          May I be born in higher realms in a human birth. 
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\          Having taken human birth in a higher realm, 
\          May I not take birth as a sinful king or his minister. 
\          May I not take birth as the leader of an army or an executioner. 
\          May I not take birth as a profiteer, liquor seller, sesame seed grinder, thief, or male or female slave.
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\          May I not take birth as one who dominates bikkshus, 
\          A working monk, enforcer of evil rules, 
\          Disciplinarian, sweeper monk, or challenger. 
\          May I not take birth in any of these jobs. 
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\          May I not take birth in the land of savages or barbarians. 
\          As one dumb, blind, deaf, imbecilic, or jealous, 
\          In the castes of heretics, or those with wrong view, 
\          In the lower castes, or as a butcher. 
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\          Until enlightenment is reached, 
\          May I always take birth as a practitioner of the holy Dharma. 
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L1 : [Taking full advantage of this precious human life]
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\          Having been born as a Dharma practitioner, 
\          May I not be under the power of non-virtue.
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\          With a life unhindered by illness, 
\          May I meet the Dharma soon after birth. 
\          Having met the Dharma soon after birth, 
\          May I train my mind in the wisdom of study, contemplation, and meditation. 
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\          May my mind be able to remain in single-pointed concentration, 
\          Six consciousnesses undistracted by objects, 
\          Developing physical power without defective limbs, 
\          Sense organs perfect, as the object of veneration in a higher birth. 
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L1 : [A gradual path of virtuous methods and wisdom]
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\          Able to accomplish all the Buddha's Dharma, 
\          May I renounce the world as a youth and maintain morality, 
\          Always relying on holy spiritual masters , 
\          And gradually traverse the ten paths. 
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L1 : [Ultimate Goal: Enlightenment]
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\          May I reach the unsurpassable essence of enlightenment . 
\          Having attained the unsurpassable essence of enlightenment, 
\          For all six realms beings in samsara, 
\          Through various actions of skillful means, 
\          May I perform the benefit of beings through the four social gatherings. 
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\          Written by Guru Nagarjuna. 
\          Translated by Venerable Lama Kalsang Gyaltsen, 
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[Ane Kunga Chodron with the aspiration that all beings may attain enlightenment.]
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