So to first develop the wish to attain those two benefits, higher states and definite goodness, one must develop the attitudes common to persons of lesser and medium capacity. Once one has developed the wish to gain those two benefits, then to cultivate that beneficial mind one needs to develop its root, love and compassion. When you are thinking about how you yourself are wandering in cyclic existence, deprived of happiness and oppressed by suffering, if the hairs on your body do not rise up and stand on end, then there is no way the ability to bear how other sentient beings are deprived of happiness and oppressed by suffering can come about. From: The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by Tsongkhapa. Translated by Philip Quarcoo and published by Wisdom Publications.
So to first develop the wish to attain those two benefits, higher states and definite goodness, one must develop the attitudes common to persons of lesser and medium capacity. Once one has developed the wish to gain those two benefits, then to cultivate that beneficial mind one needs to develop its root, love and compassion. When you are thinking about how you yourself are wandering in cyclic existence, deprived of happiness and oppressed by suffering, if the hairs on your body do not rise up and stand on end, then there is no way the ability to bear how other sentient beings are deprived of happiness and oppressed by suffering can come about.
From: The Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, by Tsongkhapa. Translated by Philip Quarcoo and published by Wisdom Publications.