I take refuge until enlightenment is reached.
By the merit of generosity and the other perfections,
may I attain buddhahood for the sake of all beings."
བྱང་ཆུབ་བར་དུ་བདག་ནི་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆི། །
བདག་གིས་སྦྱིན་སོགས་བགྱིས་པའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱིས། །
འགྲོ་ལ་ཕན་ཕྱིར་སངས་རྒྱས་འགྲུབ་པར་ཤོག
Recite these four lines three times, slowly, aloud or in the heart. Feel the field of refuge — Buddhas, teachers, and awakened beings — filling the space in front of you.
and for as long as living beings remain,
until then may I too abide,
to dispel the misery of the world."
འགྲོ་བ་ཇི་སྲིད་གནས་གྱུར་པ། །
དེ་སྲིད་བདག་ནི་གནས་གྱུར་ནས། །
འགྲོ་བའི་སྡུག་བསྔལ་སེལ་བར་ཤོག
A Word on This Verse
Called the "greatest of all Buddhist prayers" by the Dalai Lama, this is the final verse of Śāntideva's Way of the Bodhisattva, written in 8th-century India and carried to Tibet a few centuries later. It is not a wish — it is a commitment: for as long as anything anywhere still suffers, I will not slip away.
Read it once with the mind. Read it again with the heart. Then let it settle.
21 recitations of Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ. One breath, one bead.
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Sit comfortably. Spine like a stack of coins. Eyes half-open, gaze soft, resting in space. Do not follow thoughts. Do not push them away. Rest, at ease, as awareness knowing itself.
Dedicate the merit.
Whatever quiet strength arose in these ten minutes — offer it away. Not to yourself. To everyone.
attain the omniscient state of awakening,
and conquer the enemy — faults and delusion —
from the tossing waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death."
ཐོབ་ནས་ཉེས་པའི་དགྲ་རྣམས་ཕམ་བྱས་ནས། །
སྐྱེ་རྒ་ན་འཆིའི་རྦ་ཀློང་འཁྲུགས་པ་ཡི། །
སྲིད་པའི་མཚོ་ལས་འགྲོ་བ་སྒྲོལ་བར་ཤོག
the taming of your own mind."
— Patrul Rinpoche · Words of My Perfect Teacher
Tomorrow, a new verse waits — from Longchenpa, on resting in vast awareness.
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A Word on This Step
Every Tibetan sadhana begins here. Refuge is the honest recognition that we are not the source of our own liberation. Bodhicitta — the awakening heart — is what turns a private meditation into a gift to the world. Without these two, the rest is only mental exercise.