I am caught by defilement and devoted to worldly dharma,
Enjoy
talk and eagerly describe other's faults.
Don't realize my own faults
and compete with inferiors,
Cease this behavior contradicting right
means.
Diligently recall worldly dharma,
Strongly remember both day
and night
To take refuge in the Triple Gem.
Carefully keep
whatever Pratimoksha vows received.
To hold the lineage of Bodhisattvas,
Be extremely devoted to
enlightenment mind.
Recite the Seven-fold Prayer and Three Heap
Sutra
At the three times.
In the first and last parts of the night,
Do not sleep but
diligently perform yogas.
When arising from meditation and between
seesions,
Practice according to the sutras and
commentaries.
Be diligent in keeping root and branch samaya.
Diligently make
offerings to holy teachers.
Protect the minds of living beings
without exception.
When waves of non-virtuous thought arise,
Strongly apply the
antidote and remove them.
If you do not thus entreat yourself,
From whence will the entreaty come?
Even when strongly entreated thus,
Practice according to
scriptures is extremely rare.
If I don't vow to undertake this
behavior,
May my white deeds never bring result.
In applying this self entreaty to myself,
I apologize to my
teachers for all mistakes.
These verses known as "Advice to Oneself" were written by Sakya
Upasika
Dragpa Gyaltsen. (Sakya Kambum, Collected Works of
Dragpa Gyaltsen,
volume Ta, page 308.)
