Normally in life, greed – and in most cases even ambition – are things we need to slowly renounce. But while generating your qualities, such as bodhicitta, you need to be very ambitious, almost greedy

Normally in life, greed – and in most cases even ambition – are things we need to slowly renounce. But while generating your qualities, such as bodhicitta, you need to be very ambitious, almost greedy, telling yourself, ‘I want to take on all sentient beings.’ You are not satisfied with liberating just a few sentient beings, but you want to liberate all the countless multitudes of them, and at the same time you develop great confidence and conviction: ‘I can do it’.”