日常生活中怎么修习菩提心？
（噶千仁波切开示于“一亿阿弥陀佛心咒持诵闭关法会”）
问：亲爱的仁波切，请问在日常工作生活中怎么实践和培养菩提心？怎么观修菩提心？
答：在日常事务中，要培养对朋友、父母、师长、国土的慈爱心。比如去体会你对父母或朋友的慈爱，想想他们的功德，当你想他们的功德、想他们是多么重要、多么珍贵的时候，慈心就会生起来。
去体会师长和国土的恩德。比如师长给你讲解了业与因果，你如果知道了业与因果，就能忍受现下的困苦，并在将来会生起快乐的因，即菩提心，因此所有的精神导师都是非常宝贵的。而世间的老师其实也非常重要，他们教会你开车、做生意及世间的一切事，所以他们其实也是非常重要、非常珍贵的。去体会他们的恩德，思维所有师长都是一样的——去爱你的世间老师、你的精神导师，思维自己的所有师长都很仁慈。
去体会母亲的恩德。没有母亲，你就不能得到珍贵的人身。想想如果自己生为畜生会怎样？而现在，在所有众生中，自己能生为人，这是多大的慈恩啊！就这样来培养慈爱心，来忆念母亲的恩德，慢慢地你的慈爱心就会增长。
如果你去看他人的过失，嗔心就会越来越多，以致于不论什么时候，只要一看到那个人，嗔心就会生起来。如果你去想他人的功德，慈爱心就会增长，我执就会减少，最后你会具有大爱，我执则完全消失。因此，如果你心里总想着“愿我能利益众生”，如果这个愿总在你心中，那你就已生起真正的菩提心，一切自私心都被净除了。不论日夜何时，你都只想着众生，你可以继续从事日常事务，但你的心与利他的愿望再也不可分了。如果利他的愿望一直在你心里，那你就已发相对菩提心。
菩提心实际意味着慈悲心。举例来说，如果朋友送你一件礼物，你会很高兴，对吗？那你会喜欢你的朋友，在他有困难的时候，你会想去帮助他，因为你爱他，这种想要帮助他的愿望就是悲心。认为“他是非常好、非常珍贵的朋友”，那就是慈心；而当他有困难和问题时，你想帮他的心就是悲心。这种慈悲心态是非常宝贵的。
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.