Guarding one’s bodhicitta
56 Middle-Length Lamrim
Part of a series of weekly teachings on Lama Tsongkhapa's Middle-Length Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment.
- Guarding bodhicitta from degenerating in this life
- Remembering the benefits of bodhicitta
- You become a holy field
- You are guarded from harm
- Other benefits
- Four practices to prevent bodhicitta from degenerating in this live time
- Generating bodhicitta six times a day
- Train in increasing bodhicitta
- Train in not abandoning any sentient being
- Train in accumulatimg both merit and wisdom
- Abandoning nonvirtuous actions that cause bodhicitta to degenerate in future lives
- Deceiving the abbot, master, etc.
- Causing others to regret their virtuous acts
- Criticizing or disparaging those who have entered the Mahayana
- Acting with pretension or deceit
- Questions and comments
Venerable Sangye Khadro
California-born, Venerable Sangye Khadro ordained as a Buddhist nun at Kopan Monastery in 1974 and is a longtime friend and colleague of Abbey founder Venerable Thubten Chodron. She took bhikshuni (full) ordination in 1988. While studying at Nalanda Monastery in France in the 1980s, she helped to start the Dorje Pamo Nunnery, along with Venerable Chodron. Venerable Sangye Khadro has studied with many Buddhist masters including Lama Zopa Rinpoche, Lama Yeshe, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, and Khensur Jampa Tegchok. At her teachers’ request, she began teaching in 1980 and has since taught in countries around the world, occasionally taking time off for personal retreats. She served as resident teacher in Buddha House, Australia, Amitabha Buddhist Centre in Singapore, and the FPMT centre in Denmark. From 2008-2015, she followed the Masters Program at the Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy. Venerable has authored a number books found here, including the best-selling How to Meditate. She has taught at Sravasti Abbey since 2017 and is now a full-time resident.