This short prayer invokes the Buddha's blessings for us to be able to transform our habitual self-cherishing into the love, patience, and compassion for all sentient beings that characterize the Buddha's actions in his earlier lives as a bodhisattva on the path to enlightenment. Inspired by the Buddha's extraordinary conduct, it expresses an aspiration to take upon oneself the negative karma and sufferings of others and to become the means of living, liberation, and awakening for them. It features among the lojong (thought transformation) prayers that Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche recommends for recitation in the Lama Chopa, just before Verse 95 on the practice of exchanging self for others. 

The original English translation is by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche, whose lifelong message to us is "Cherish others." This updated edition was completed in August 2024.

8 pages, 2024 Edition.