Commentary on verses for training the mind to transform how adverse circumstances are viewed and turn them into the path.
The 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas: Verses 16-20
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An Open Hearted Life: The four immeasurables
The four immeasurables—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—present a way to relate to other living beings that is healthy and beneficial.
Guided Meditation: Cultivating the four immeasurable thoughts
The more we familiarize ourselves with the four immeasurable thoughts—love, compassion, joy and equanimity—the more they will arise naturally and spontaneously.
Karma that ripens at death
Continuing Chapter 11, explaining many factors that affect the result of karma and different perspectives on what karma ripens at the time of death.
Keeping the promise of bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 11-16 on the importance of making ourselves into trustworthy people: in general and in the context of keeping our promise of bodhicitta
Refuting the elements as the cause of afflictions
Refuting views that assert the elements of the body are the substantial cause of the mental defilements also the definition of the truth of suffering.
Refuting that body is the special basis of mind
Through logical reasoning it is shown that the physical body cannot be the substantial cause of the mind.
Disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
Discussing Verses 2-10 of Chapter 4, which cover the disadvantages of discarding bodhicitta
Refuting incorrect views on the causes of suffering and the afflictions
The logical refutations of incorrect ideas of how the mental afflictions and suffering arise and proving the correct causes.
The sixteen aspects of the four truths
How the sixteen aspects of the four truths contradict the sixteen distorted ideas.