日常生活中怎麼修習菩提心？
（噶千仁波切開示於“一億阿彌陀佛心咒持誦閉關法會”）
問：親愛的仁波切，請問在日常工作生活中怎麼實踐和培養菩提心？怎麼觀修菩提心？
答：在日常事務中，要培養對朋友、父母、師長、國土的慈愛心。比如去體會你對父母或朋友的慈愛，想想他們的功德，當你想他們的功德、想他們是多麼重要、多麼珍貴的時候，慈心就會生起來。
去體會師長和國土的恩德。比如師長給你講解了業與因果，你如果知道了業與因果，就能忍受現下的困苦，並在將來會生起快樂的因，即菩提心，因此所有的精神導師都是非常寶貴的。而世間的老師其實也非常重要，他們教會你開車、做生意及世間的一切事，所以他們其實也是非常重要、非常珍貴的。去體會他們的恩德，思維所有師長都是一樣的——去愛你的世間老師、你的精神導師，思維自己的所有師長都很仁慈。
去體會母親的恩德。沒有母親，你就不能得到珍貴的人身。想想如果自己生為畜生會怎樣？而現在，在所有眾生中，自己能生為人，這是多大的慈恩啊！就這樣來培養慈愛心，來憶念母親的恩德，慢慢地你的慈愛心就會增長。
如果你去看他人的過失，嗔心就會越來越多，以致於不論什麼時候，只要一看到那個人，嗔心就會生起來。如果你去想他人的功德，慈愛心就會增長，我執就會減少，最後你會具有大愛，我執則完全消失。因此，如果你心裡總想著“願我能利益眾生”，如果這個願總在你心中，那你就已生起真正的菩提心，一切自私心都被淨除了。不論日夜何時，你都只想著眾生，你可以繼續從事日常事務，但你的心與利他的願望再也不可分了。如果利他的願望一直在你心裡，那你就已發相對菩提心。
菩提心實際意味著慈悲心。舉例來說，如果朋友送你一件禮物，你會很高興，對嗎？那你會喜歡你的朋友，在他有困難的時候，你會想去幫助他，因為你愛他，這種想要幫助他的願望就是悲心。認為“他是非常好、非常珍貴的朋友”，那就是慈心；而當他有困難和問題時，你想幫他的心就是悲心。這種慈悲心態是非常寶貴的。
Q: Dear Rinpoche, how to practice and cultivate bodhicitta in daily work life and also how to meditate on bodhicitta?
A: During your activities, you cultivate love for your friends, your parents, your teacher, your country. For example, think about the love you have for your parents, or the love you have for your friends. Think about their good qualities, and when you think about their good qualities, you think that they are so special and so precious and so love arises.
Think about the kindness of the teacher, of your countries.For example your teacher introduces you to karma, cause and effect. If you know that, then you will be able to tolerate the difficulties now and in the future you will be able to create causes of happiness which is bodhicitta. So, all the spiritual teachers are very precious. But even worldly teachers are very important for example, they teach you how to drive, they teach you how to make a business or teach you anything about this world. So, they
are actually also very special, very precious. Think about their kindness and think that all teachers are the same. For example, love your teacher, love your spiritual teacher, and think that all my teachers are kind.
Think about the kindness of your mother; without your mother, you will not have a precious human body. Think how it will be if I were born as an animal, and now of all these beings, I am a human being. What a kindness is that! So cultivate love and remember the kindness of your mother. If you think about it this way, slowly your love will increase.
If you look at the fault of others, the anger increases more and more. Any time, whenever you see that person, anger arises. If you think about the qualities of others, the love increases and the self-grasping diminishes. In the end you will have great love and self-grasping has disappeared. So, if you always think “may I benefit sentient beings”; if this always remains in your mind, then you have finally cultivated real bodhicitta. All selfishness has been cleared away; day and night, all the time,
you only think about sentient beings. You can continue to engage in your daily activities but then your mind should never be separated from the wish to benefit others. If that always remains in your mind, then you have cultivated the relative bodhicitta.
Bodhicitta actually means love and compassion. For example if a friend gives you a gift, you are very happy, right? So you like your friend, and when that friend has difficulties, then you want to help them because you love them. That wish to help them is compassion. Thinking that “he is such a good friend and he is so precious”, then that is love. When he has difficulties and problems, and you want to help him then that is compassion. This state of mind of love and compassion are very precious.