39. All activities should be done with one intention

• This is the First Slogan/Instruction of Point Seven, which consists of twenty-one instructions.
• Point Seven is “Guidelines for Mind Training”

The purpose of all the scriptures and treatises is to attain liberation, and for this it is necessary to subdue self-grasping. Therefore all activities of study, reflection, and meditation are for the sake of subduing self-grasping.

“Public Explication of Mind Training” by Sangyé Gompa (1179– 1250), in Mind Training: The Great Collection translated by Thupten Jinpa

Bodhisattva Vajrapani, 700s. Nepal. Copper with traces of gilt; overall: 17.8 cm (7 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art