Page 347 - Bodhayanti Parasparam Vol 4

PROPER MOTIVATION
Path in order to benefit ALL BEINGS. Because we possess the beginningless habit of fixation on the self, it is natural for us, as far as our motivation goes, to desire our own happiness and our own benefit as our primary wish or goal. This is not a bad, it is just a small-minded or petty motivation. The small scope of this wish is to benefit only our self which is of self centeredness, and is in no way helpful for development beyond into the realms of Cosmic and Para Cosmic consciousnesses not to speak of the Ultimate Consciousness. Even if we were to suffer this defect in our motivation and recognize it as such, again we need to ignore this and let go of the self-obsessive quality of it, and generate the intention that what we are doing is of benefit to all beings.
This motivation of wishing to practice and study in order to benefit all beings without exception is a type of mind that is required to practice the special technique of mediation on the point A. Without its purity of intention and motivation it will be futile to meditate on the point A: the path to the awakened mind. Those of us who try to do this
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