41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta (2008-09)
Short talks on "41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta" from the Flower Ornament Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra).
41 Prayers to Cultivate Bodhicitta
Venerable Thubten Chodron A Mahayana prayer for daily life from the Flower Ornament Sutra (Avatamsaka Sutra).
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Introduction: Cultivating bodhicitta daily
Inspiration to live each day like a bodhisattva.
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Verse 1: The citadel of liberation
Transform the act of entering a house to be a cause of enlightenment.
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Verse 3: The dreamlike nature of things
To see that all things are like an illusion, like a dream, appearing in one way but existing in another.
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Verse 4: The sleep of ignorance
On waking up, thinking that we're coming out of ignorance, especially the ignorance grasping at a truly existent self.
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Verses 2-4: Review
Different ways of looking at verses 2-4, on an ordinary level and on a tantric level.
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Special verse: Oceans of merit
What to consider while inviting generosity, the amazing opportunity that others have to create merit and help to spread the Dharma in the world.
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Vesak verse: Bodhicitta on Vesak day
Celebrating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and passing into parinirvana with a verse the cultivates a broad motivation to practice the teachings.
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Verse 5-1: Attaining the form buddha bodies
Planting the seeds to be able to attain the form body of the Buddha, the body through which the Buddha benefits sentient beings.
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Verse 5-2: Creating the causes
The importance of cultivating the two sides of the path, method and wisdom, just as a bird needs two wings to fly.
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Verse 6-1: Robes of integrity
Seeing an opportunity for non-virtue but restraining ourselves because of a sense of our own integrity.
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