Quotations: Shantideva, Bodhicharyavatara, When they come upon a serpent...

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ཤི་བའི་སྦྲུལ་དང་ཕྲད་གྱུར་ན། །

ཁྭ་ཡང་ཁ་ལྡིང་ལྟ་བུར་སྤྱོད། །
གལ་ཏེ་བདག་ཉིད་ཉམ་ཆུང་ན། །

ལྟུང་བ་ཆུང་ངུའང་གནོད་པར་བྱེད། །

When they come upon a serpent near to death,
Even common crows behave like mighty eagles.
Likewise, if I am weak and faint of heart,
Even minor faults will become great setbacks.

Śāntideva, Introduction to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, VII, 52