Three scopes of Dharma practitioners
02 Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
Geshe Gendun Samdup 
Stages of the Path 
May 14, 2025 A series of teachings based on Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment by the revered scholar Jowo Atisha. You can find the text and commentary Geshela is using in these teachings here.
- Review of verse 1: Homage and promise to compose
- Verses 2-5: Characteristics of beings of the three capacities
- Expanding our view to look at goals of people with, without and against religious beliefs
- Understanding what is virtuous and non-virtuous, what to adopt and abandon
- Developing conviction in the Buddha’s teachings
- Identifying the self in past, present and future lives
- Exploring the length of one eon
- What beings of the three capacities practice
- Practicing each of the six perfections in daily life
- Questions and answers
- Three characteristics of the six perfections
- Relating the destruction of an eon to the death process
- How can there be a being who only practices the great scope without the other two?
- Whether a being who practices all three scopes can still have eight worldly concerns but aspire for full awakening
- Meditating on the destruction of an eon
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