Je Tsong Khapa
Lobsang Drakpa
(1357-1419)
“Swept away by the current of the four powerful rivers,
Tied by the tight bonds of karma, so hard to undo,
Caught in the iron net of self-grasping,
Completely enveloped by the total darkness of ignorance,
Endlessly reborn in cyclic existence,
Ceaselessly tormented by the three sufferings –
Thinking that all mothers are in such a condition,
Generate the supreme mind of enlightenment.”
Verse 7-8 from The Three Principal Aspects of the Path by Lama Tsong Khapa. Translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Available on-line from FPMT.