When your world is full of the pain and suffering that are the fruition of evil - when prosperity and wealth are diminishing, troublesome people create difficulties, and so on - you must change the adverse conditions in which you find yourself into the path of awakening. There are three ways to make this transformation: by relying on relative bodhicitta ('Drive All Blames into One', 'Be Grateful to Everyone'), on ultimate bodhicitta ('To See Confusion as the Four Kayas, the Protection of Emptiness in Unsurpassable'), and on special practices ('The Four Practices are the Best Method').

From THE GREAT PATH OF AWAKENING, by Jamgn Kongtrul, translated by Ken McLeod. 1993 by Ken McLeod.
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.