Generating the Mind for Enlightenment
With a wish to free all beings
I shall always go for refuge
to the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
until I reach full enlightenment.
Enthused by wisdom and compassion,
today in the Buddha's presence
I generate the Mind of Full Awakening
for the benefit of all sentient beings.
As long as space endures,
as long as sentient beings remain,
until the, may I too remain
and dispel the miseries of the world.
For more information about these vows, please read this passage from "Mind in Comfort and Ease: Living the Great Perfection", His Holiness the Dalai Lama, ISBN: 978-0861714933

The Three Jewels
I take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha
Until I attain Enlightenment.
By merit accumulations from practicing generosity and the other perfections
May I attain Enlightenment, for the benefit of all sentient beings.
Until I am enlightened,
I go for refuge to the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Through the virtue I create by practising giving and the other perfections,
may I become a Buddha to benefit all sentient beings.
Shantideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva



