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                               The 37 Bodhisattva Vows (brief version)

1. First listen, think clearly, meditate regularly.

2. Give up your homeland and embrace the world as your country.

3. Live a solitary life untainted by worldliness.

4. Cast away thoughts that concern but this lifetime.

5. Sever such ties with misleading associates.

6. Far more than your body, cherish your Teacher within.

7. Go to the Three Jewels of Refuge for shelter [Teacher, Teaching, Order]

8. Turn away from all actions that harm other beings.

9. Aim every effort to becoming an enlightened being.

10. Generate the wisdom-hearted aspiration for realization.

11. Replace thought of self with concern for all others.

12. With compassion, pray for those who exploit us.

13. Selflessly help alleviate the karma of those who offend us.

14. Seek and praise the better qualities of those who speak ill.

15. Without blaming and with no anger, respect even those who abuse us.

16. Give love and affection to the unthankful who treat us as foes

17. In utter humility, still treat with honor those who insult us.

18. Retain the courage to relieve the hardships and pain of others.

19. Tho' praised and well-known, cast out pride in these glories.

20. Turn inwards and tame the wild flowers of your mind-stream.

21. Without hesitation, overcome indulgence in sensory objects.

22. Beyond conceptions, dispel belief in inherent existence.

23. Relinquish the drives of compulsive attraction.

24. Approach unpleasant conditions as if they were only illusion.

25. Engage in the practice of generous giving.

26. Renounce attachments, protect your vows of good conduct.

27. Abandon anger and resentment, meditate with patient endurance.

28. For everyone's sake, seek enlightenment with perseverance.

29. Meditate deeply in single-minded control and concentration.

30. Seeing non-existence, develop the Perfection of Wisdom.

31. Examine mistakes, delusions, faults, and remove them all.

32. Avoid the error of disparaging others.

33. Be beyond bondage to domestic disputes and relations.

34. Eliminate acts and words of abuse directed towards others.

35. Remove such defilements as lust on first sight.

36. Work for the welfare of all sentient beings.

37. Practice these virtuous ways with dedication and selflessness.