Morning Motivation
Setting intention at the start of each day.
Beginning each day by generating bodhicitta ensures that all activities become causes for enlightenment. Even mundane actions are transformed when motivated by the wish to benefit all beings.
Today I will practice for the benefit of all beings.
Setting motivation transforms ordinary activities into dharma practice.
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- What Tibetan Buddhism says about habit and discipline
The day opens by generating bodhicitta, so that even mundane actions become causes for enlightenment. The claim is not that you do more, but that a motivation set once at waking changes the karmic weight of everything that follows it.