Four Steps of Sowing Seeds — The Diamond Cutter Teaching

From Geshe Michael Roach’s Diamond Cutter teaching, four steps for manifesting what you want in life through the law of cause and effect:

1. Clarify your desire — be specific about what you truly want
2. Find others with similar goals — develop a plan to genuinely help them
3. Take consistent action — follow through on supporting those individuals
4. Dedicate the merit — offer the benefit of your actions beyond yourself

The principle: what you create for others, you create for yourself. Not as a transaction, but as a law of the universe.

Combined with the three pure aspects — pure motivation, pure method, and pure dedication — these steps produce results that far exceed ordinary effort.