Lotus of Bodhicitta

With a wish to free all beings
I shall always go for refuge
To the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha,
Until I reach full enlightenment

Enthused by wisdom and compassion,
today in the Buddhas' presence
I generate the Mind for Full Awakening
For the benefit of all sentient beings

As long as space remains,
As long as sentient beings remain,
Until then, may I too remain
And dispel the miseries of the world

Garchen Rinpoche say in Milarepa teaching, Milarepa was pure bodhicitta and when we remind to ourself the bodhisattvas practice we should always generate an active bodhicitta.

In Sanskrit, bodhi means "awakened" and chitta means "mind" or "heart." Bodhichitta -- "awakened heart-mind" -- is the compassionate wish to realize enlightenment for all beings, not just oneself. Through bodhichitta, the desire to attain enlightenment transcends the narrow interests of the individual self.

In our world today we have a strong view about individuality what's not generally so good in bodhichitta development, when we follow the path as say Gendum Rinpoche we should have the intention of helping others so hard that became our only goal in life.

Gendum Rinpoche use this example : if someone plant a tree for himself and an other plant a tree with the intention to every beings be able to have benefit of it the intention isn't the same and the result will be different.

In that we have to think all kind of distractions drive us away from dharma, but helping others in the direct level of bodhichitta can be, be good to others beings everyday, so we can apply this bodhichitta in everyday life, also to the deeper level focus on daily practice and apply in everyday life as say Garchen Rinpoche.

In our life we got some tendency and that a both a psychological work of everyday life to change selfishness to bodhichitta, as our way we plant our tree the result may vary in all kind of way .

In our time when depression is a big part as say Lama Zopa rinpoche depression is also a pure form of selfishness we need develop more and more bodhichitta, as bodhichitta is generate by understanding the sufferance of others in all kind of way and making everything to take of this sufferance off.

As everything is possible we can generate bodhichitta in our world today, we have everything to train us and help us to become better but the question is do we make the choice of dharma or samsara as is really easy to fall in samsara bodhichitta is also important for our next birth, we have to develop pure bodhichitta and use it to help all beings, following the buddhist path bodhichitta is the key drive us to enlightenment.