Ten powers

• Understands the world with many different elements
• 18 constituents, 6 elements, external and internal sense sources, 12 links of dependent origination
• Impermanent, conditioned, dependent
• Understands how beings have different inclinations
• Inferior and superior inclinations
• Understands dispositions of the faculties of other beings
• Faith, effort, mindfulness, concentration, wisdom
• Understands defilement, cleansing and emergence related to meditative stabilizations
• Recollects his manifold past lives

12 Ten Powers (download)

Contemplation points

1. Consider some of the intricacies of karma – not just the substantial cause for what we experience, but the many conditions coming together that allow for a result to ripen. Make some examples of this from your own life. Get a feel for how much influences what we experience from moment to moment and how being able to see this for each living being enables a Buddha to be of benefit.
2. Consider the next five of the Ten Powers. What insights does each power provide? How does that power enable the Buddha to benefit others?
   • The fourth of the Ten Powers is that the Buddha understands it actually is the world with its many and different elements.
   • The fifth of the Ten Powers is that he understands as it actually is how beings have different inclinations.
   • The sixth of the Ten Powers is that he understands as it actually is the disposition of the faculties of other beings. How does this power enable the Buddha to benefit others?
   • The seventh of the Ten Powers is that he understands as it actually is the defilement, cleansing, and emergence in regard to the meditative stabilizations, liberations, concentrations, and meditative absorptions.
   • The eighth of the Ten Powers is that he recollects his manifold past lives.