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As Buddhist, we try to be keenly aware of our own suffering and the suffering of others. But how do we cultivate a mind of benefiting others and oursevves.

Namo Guru vi
Namo Buddha ya
Namo Dharma ya
Namo Sangha ya

I go to refuge until I am enlightenened to the Buddha, the Dharma and Supreme assembly. By the merits I create, through practicing giving and the rest. May I become a buddha in order to benefit all sentient beings.

The lord Buddha means “eliminated and developed”-eliminated all gross and subtle mistakes of mind, and having completed all the qualities and realization.
The first cause of refuge is one’s own mind qualified by having useful fear of samsara. Then the second cause is having faith towards the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha; understanding that they have the power and qualities to save oneself, liberate oneself, from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and their cause: karma and delusions. Then, with those two causes, completely relying on, totaly trusting in Buddha, Dharma and Sangha; that mental factor is Hinayana refuge. In Mahayana, there are these two causes and the third one, compassion for sentient beings. With these three causes, totaly relying on Buddha, Dharma and Sangha; that mental factor is Mahayana refuge.
The Secret Mantra Vajrayana way is by practicing generation stage to be free from ordinary appearance and ordinary concept, and then to be free from the infunctionability of the chakras, winds and drops; to be free from inpure wind and mind, to cease those.

Resourse: Lama Zopa Rinpoche