Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, covering natural nirvana and nirvana with remainder and nirvana without remainder
Bodhicitta is the mind dedicated to attaining awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings. Included are explanations of bodhicitta, its advantages, and how to develop bodhicitta.
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Bodhicitta is the mind dedicated to attaining awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings. Included are explanations of bodhicitta, its advantages, and how to develop bodhicitta.
Bodhisattvas’ path to awakening
Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, explaining the five paths of the bodhisattva vehicle.
Meditations on equalizing and exchanging self and others
A sequence of eleven guided meditations for developing bodhicitta using the method of equalizing and exchanging self and others.
Compassion and the determination to be free
Completing Chapter 9, describing how to think about the four truths in terms of three levels of practitioners and what it means to develop renunciation
The four powers that increase joyous effort
Commentary to verses 30-38 of Chapter 7, including the four powers that increase the strength of joyous effort.
Jealousy
Giving commentary to Verses 73-84 of Chapter 6, explaining the disadvantages of, and antidotes to, jealousy
Unhappiness fuels anger
Covering Verses 7-10 of Chapter 6, describing the evolution of how anger enters the mind, based on mental unhappiness
The defects of anger
Discussing the various defects and disadvantages of anger, covering Verses 1 – 6 of Chapter 6
Putting the dharma into practice
Covering Chapter 5 Verses 100-109, discussing the advice to dedicate our merits for the welfare of all sentient beings and to put the teachings into practice
“Courageous Compassion”: Reading and commentary
How to develop true compassion in order to benefit all sentient beings, no self-centered strings attached.
