Aspiring bodhicitta
05 Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment
Geshe Gendun Samdup 
Stages of the Path 
May 16, 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.
- Five aspects of the precepts of aspiring bodhicitta
- Verse 13: Remembering the benefits of bodhicitta
- Verses 14-17: Training in aspiring bodhicitta
- Verse 18, lines 1-2: Accumulation of merit and wisdom
- Verse 18, line 3: Not leaving out a single sentient being
- Verse 18, line 4: What to adopt and abandon
- Preliminaries for generating bodhicitta
- Analyzing compassion from different angles
- Characteristics of bodhicitta
- Detailed commentary on verses 15-18
- Questions and answers
- When bodhisattvas completely abandon self-centeredness
- Bodhisattvas having bias on the path of accumulation
- How one who has aspiring bodhicitta would not immediately engage in bodhicitta
- Antidotes to the judgmental mind
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