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Non-desire, non-anger, non-delusion, And actions arising from them are virtuous. ### [p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p5) Chapter 1, verse 20 ### [p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p6) ཇི་སྲིད་ཕུང་པོར་འཛིན་ཡོད་པ། ། དེ་སྲིད་དེ་ལས་ངར་འཛིན་ཡོད། ། ངར་འཛིན་ཡོད་ན་ཡང་ལས་ཏེ། ། དེ་ལས་ཡང་ནི་སྐྱེ་བ་ཡིན། ། ### [p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p7) As long as the aggregates are conceived, There will be a conception of “I”, And when there is a conception of “I”, There’s karma, and from that, rebirth. ### [p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p8) Chapter 1, verse 35 ### [p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p9) བདག་ཉིད་དང་ནི་འཇིག་རྟེན་འདིས། ། བླ་མེད་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཐོབ་འདོད་ན། ། དེ་ཡི་རྩ་བ་བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས། ། རི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལྟར་བརྟན་དང༌། ། ཕྱོགས་མཐས་གཏུགས་པའི་སྙིང་རྗེ་དང༌། ། གཉིས་ལ་མི་བརྟེན་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལགས། ། ### [p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p10) If we ourselves and all the world Wish for unsurpassed enlightenment, Its basis is bodhicitta Stable as the king of mountains, Compassion reaching out in all directions, And wisdom that transcends duality. ### [p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p11) Chapter 2, verse 73cd–74 ### [p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p12) འཆི་བའི་རྐྱེན་ནི་མང་བ་སྟེ། ། གསོ་བའི་རྒྱུ་ནི་ཉུང་ཟད་ཅིག ། དེ་དག་ཉིད་ནི་འཆི་བའི་ཡང༌། ། དེ་བས་རྟག་ཏུ་ཆོས་མཛོད་ཅིག ། ### [p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p13) Causes of death are numerous, While causes of life are few indeed, And even those may cause death; So practise Dharma at all times. ### [p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p14) Chapter 3, verse 78 ### [p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p15) རྗེའུ་ཚོས་སུམ་བརྒྱའི་ཁ་ཟས་དག ། ཉིན་རེ་དུས་གསུམ་སྦྱིན་པས་ཀྱང་། ། བྱམས་པ་ཡུད་ཙམ་ཐང་ཅིག་གི ། བསོད་ནམས་དག་ལ་ཆར་མི་ཕོད། ། ### [p16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p16) Offerings of three hundred pots of food Made three times each and every day Could not match even a portion of the merit Gained from just a single moment’s loving kindness. ### [p17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey.p17) Chapter 3, verse 83 --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.darsana.madhyamaka.ratnavali*bo~en-pearcey) · Pramāṇa