A treasure of knowledge for Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva guides one on the Dharma Path to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. The original text has been studied daily by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and practiced, and expounded upon in an unbroken tradition for centuries in India and then Tibet. Presented here is Chapter 1 in American style free verse Haiku format translated by Michael Boyajian in the unrelated fashion of Seamus Heaney in his new verse translation of Virgil’s Aeneid chapter 6.