For the sake of all beings I have made this body pleasurele… - Shantideva

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For the sake of all beings I have made this body pleasureless. Let them continually beat it, revile it, and cover it with filth. Let them play with my body. Let them laugh at it and ridicule it. What does it matter to me? I have given my body to them.

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Shantideva (sometimes Śāntideva) was an 8th-century Indian Buddhist scholar and adherent of the Prasangika Madhyamaka philosophy, renowned as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara

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Alternative Names: Vushuk Pa • Śāntideva

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May I fall as rain to increase The harvests that must feed living beings And in ages of dire famine May I myself serve as food and drink.

My body, every possession And all goodness, past, present and future Without remorse I dedicate To the well-being of the world.

Suffering is transcended by total surrender And the mind attains to nirvana. As one day all must be given up, Why not dedicate it now to universal happiness?

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