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The Bodhisattva Path of Wisdom and Compassion

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by Chogyam Trungpa

Four Aspects of Great Compassion (mahakaruna)

  1. Mahakaruna itself / big vision

  2. Luminosity / öselwa

  3. Skillfulness / thapla khepa

  4. Peace / shiwa

  PART FIVE: EMPTINESS AND COMPASSION

  Chapter 18. Emptiness

  Three Types of Emptiness

  1. External

  2. Internal

  3. Absolute

  Chapter 19. Discovering a World beyond Ego

  Chapter 20. Emptiness and the Middle Way

  Two Extreme Views

  1. Eternalism

  2. Nihilism

  Chapter 21. Realizing the Emptiness of Ordinary Reality

  Three Levels of Madhyamaka

  1. Ground / understanding the two truths

  2. Path / taking leaps of pragmatic action

  3. Fruition / the ten bodhisattva bhumis

  Two Levels of Perceiving Shunyata

  1. Superficial prajna perception / relative truth

  2. Transcendental prajna perception / ultimate truth.

  Two Types of Relative Truth / Kündzop

  1. False kündzop

  2. True kündzop

  Chapter 22. Experiencing Reality in Its Fullest Sense

  Two Types of Absolute Truth / Töndam

  1. Countable

  2. Uncountable

  Fourfold Definition of Ultimate Truth

  1. Joy

  2. Purity

  3. Permanence / lakshana

  4. Being

  Chapter 23. Contemplating Emptiness

  Four Ways of Overcoming Random Labeling / Küntak

  1. Examining the cause

  2. Examining the effect

  3. Examining both the cause and effect

  4. Examining the nature of the whole thing

  Chapter 24. Awakening Unfabricated Perception

  The Seven Riches of Supreme Beings

  1. Not being distracted by the sense experiences

  2. Diligent practice

  3. Joy, or faith

  4. Generosity

  5. Composure, or modesty

  6. Reasonableness

  7. Knowledge / prajna

  PART SIX: BODHISATTVA ACTIVITY

  Chapter 25. Paramitas: Techniques of Nongrasping

  The Six Paramitas

  1. Generosity / dana

  2. Discipline / tsültrim

  3. Patience / söpa

  4. Exertion / tsöndrü

  5. Meditation / samten

  6. Prajna / knowledge

  Paramitas Seven through Ten

  7. Skillful means / thap

  8. Aspiration / mönlam

  9. Power / bala

  10. Wisdom / yeshe

  Characteristics of Paramita Practice

  1. Overcomes neurotic hang-ups and defilements

  2. Develops an understanding of threefold purity

  3. Actions are completed

  4. Actions have benefited others

  Chapter 26. Applying Emptiness to Everyday Life

  Three Supreme Disciplines and Six Paramitas

  1. Shila / discipline

  a. Generosity

  b. Discipline

  c. Patience

  2. Samadhi / meditation

  a. Meditation

  3. Prajna / knowledge or discriminating awareness

  a. Prajna

  [Paramita of discipline applies throughout]

  Chapter 27. Generosity

  Three Levels of Generosity

  1. Material generosity

  2. Fearlessness

  3. Dharma

  Chapter 28. Discipline

  Three Types of Discipline

  1. Binding yourself

  2. Gathering virtuous dharmas

  3. Benefiting sentient beings

  Chapter 29. Patience

  Four Types of Maras

  1. Devaputra-mara / mara of seduction

  2. Klesha-mara / mara of kleshas

  3. Skandha-mara / mara of skandhas

  4. Yama-mara / mara of the god of death

  Three Categories of Patience

  1. Overcoming other people’s destructiveness

  2. Realizing the nature of other people’s aggression

  3. Individually examining

  Chapter 30. Exertion

  Three Categories of Laziness, the Main Obstacle to Exertion

  1. Casualness / slothfulness

  2. Losing heart

  3. Degraded laziness

  Three Qualities of Exertion

  1. Suit of armor

  2. Action

  a. Overcoming the kleshas

  b. Developing virtue

  i. Perseverance

  ii. Joy

  iii. Immovability

  iv. Not changing your mid

  v. Nonarrogance

  c. Working with others

  3. Never being satisfied

  Chapter 31. Meditation

  Two Categories of Samten

  1. Common samten / shamatha

  2. Special samten / vipashyana

  Three Levels of Samten

  1. Dwelling in the dharma of seeing

  2. Accumulating goodness

  3. Enthusiasm in working for others

  Eight Main Obstacles to Samten

  1. Not controlling the body

  2. Not controlling the speech

  3. Not controlling the mind

  4. Indulging in the kleshas

  5. Engaging in mindless chatter and gossip

  6. Being overly or wrongly relaxed

  7. Being heedless

  8. Regressing in your shamatha-vipashyana practice

  Four Ways of Implementing Samten

  1. Loving-kindness / maitri

  2. Compassion / karuna

  3. Sympathetic joy / mudita

  4. Equanimity / upeksha

  Chapter 32. Prajna

  Two Aspects of Mahayana Practice

  1. Skillful means / the first five paramitas

  2. Wisdom / the sixth paramita (prajna)

  Three Prajnas

  1. Mundane prajna

  2. Prajna that transcends worldliness

  3. Prajna that transcends dharmas

  PART SEVEN. MIND TRAINING AND SLOGAN PRACTICE

  Chapter 33. Introduction to Mind Training

  A Way of Working with Individual Slogans

  1. Examining the cause

  2. Examining the effect

  3. Examining the essence

  Chapter 34. Undermining Aggression

  Three Types of Aggression

  1. Deep-rooted aggression

  2. Analytical aggression

  3. Sudden wind of aggression

  Developing Compassion

  1. Deliberate compassion

  2. Nondeliberate compassion

  Chapter 35. Point One: The Preliminaries, Which Are a Basis for Dharma Practice

  The Four Reminders

  1. The preciousness of human life

  2. The reality of death

  3. The entrapment of karma

  4. The intensity and inevitability of suffering

  Chapter 36. Point Two: Resting in Ultimate Bodhichitta

  The Eight Consciousnesses

  1. Eye consciousness

  2. Ear consciousness

  3. Nose consciousness

  4. Tongue consciousness

  5. Body consciousness

  6. Yi / mind consciousness

  7. Nyön-yi / the seventh consciousness / instigator of the kleshas

  8. Alayavijnana (Tib.: künshi namshe) / the eighth consciousness / storehouse

  Chapter 37: Point Two: Training in Relative Bodhichitta

  The Practice of Tonglen (Slogan 7)

  1. Riding the breath

  2. Starting with your mother

  3. Extending your practice

  4. Applying tonglen in ordinary life

  Three Objects (Slogan 8)

  1. Love

  2. Hate

  3. Indifference


  Three Poisons (Slogan 8)

  1. Passion

  2. Aggression

  3. Ignorance

  Three Virtuous Seeds (Slogan 8)

  1. Absence of passion

  2. Absence of aggression

  3. Absence of ignorance

  Chapter 38: Point Three: Transformation of Bad Circumstances into the Path of Enlightenment

  The Four Kayas (Slogan 14)

  1. Dharmakaya (truth body) / basic openness

  2. Nirmanakaya (form body) / clarity

  3. Sambhogakaya (bliss body) / the bridge between dharmakaya and nirmanakaya

  4. Svabhavikakaya / the totality, total panoramic experience

  Four Practices (Slogan 15)

  1. Accumulating merit

  Three Lines of Encouragement

  a. Grant your blessing so if it is better for me to be sick, let me be sick

  b. Grant your blessing so if it is better for me to survive, let me survive

  c. Grant your blessing so if it is better for me to be dead, let me die

  2. Laying down evil deeds

  Fourfold Confession

  a. Regret

  b. Refraining from evil actions

  c. Taking refuge in the Buddha, dharma, and sangha

  d. Letting go of hope and fear

  3. Offering to the döns

  4. Offering to the dharmapalas

  Chapter 39: Point Four: Showing the Utilization of Practice in One’s Whole Life

  The Five Strengths (Slogans 17 and 18)

  1. Strong determination

  2. Familiarization

  3. Seed of virtue

  4. Reproach

  5. Aspiration

  Chapter 40: Point Five: Evaluation of Mind Training

  Two Witnesses (Slogan 20)

  1. Yourself

  2. Other

  Chapter 41: Point Six: Disciplines of Mind Training

  Three Basic Principles (Slogan 23)

  1. Keeping the refuge and bodhisattva vows

  2. Refraining from outrageous actions

  3. Developing patience

  Chapter 42: Point Seven: Guidelines of Mind Training

  Two Activities (Slogan 41)

  1. Beginning the day by remembering bodhichitta

  2. Ending the day by examining what you have done

  Two Forms of Patience (Slogan 42)

  1. Patience with extreme suffering

  2. Patience with extreme happiness

  Two Vows to Observe (Slogan 43)

  1. Refuge vow

  2. Bodhisattva vow

  Three Difficulties (Slogan 44)

  1. Difficulty of recognizing your kleshas

  2. Difficulty of overcoming your kleshas

  3. Difficulty of cutting through your kleshas

  Three Things to Do about the Three Difficulties (Slogan 44)

  1. Recognize your kleshas

  2. Overcome the kleshas

  3. Take a vow never to re-create the kleshas

  Three Principal Causes (Slogan 45)

  1. Having a good teacher

  2. Cultivating a mind and demeanor applicable to the dharma

  3. Having the right practical circumstances for practicing the dharma

  Three That Should Not Wane (Slogan 46)

  1. Devotion to the spiritual friend

  2. Delight in practice

  3. Keeping the hinayana and mahayana disciplines

  Three Inseparable Things (Slogan 47)

  1. Body inseparable from lojong

  2. Speech inseparable from lojong

  3. Mind inseparable from lojong

  Six Primary Things We Misinterpret (Slogan 52)

  1. Patience

  2. Yearning

  3. Excitement

  4. Compassion

  5. Priorities

  6. Joy

  Two Ways to Liberate Yourself (Slogan 55)

  1. Examining

  2. Analyzing

  Chapter 43: Additional Mind-Training Instructions

  Four Summary Instructions

  1. Create a counterweight for happiness

  2. Create a great terminator of suffering

  3. Understand that everything is just a dream

  4. Invite bad omens as wealth

  PART EIGHT. THE BODHISATTVA’S JOURNEY

  Chapter 44. The Paths and Bhumis

  The Ten Bhumis

  1. Very joyful

  2. Spotlessness

  3. Illuminating

  4. Radiating light

  5. Difficult to accomplish

  6. Becoming manifest

  7. Far gone

  8. Immovable

  9. Good intellect

  10. Cloud of dharma

  The Five Paths

  1. The path of accumulation

  Three Qualities of the Path of Accumulation

  a. Lesser path of accumulation / attitude like the earth

  b. Medium path of accumulation / intention like gold

  c. Greater path of accumulation / wholesomeness like the full moon

  2. The path of unification

  Three Qualities of the Path of Unification

  a. Willingness like a burning fire

  b. Completely nonconceptual meditation

  c. Increasing discrimination

  Four Stages of Discrimination

  i. Heat / a hint of mahayana

  ii. Crest / terrifying sharpness and conviction

  Five Perceptions Developed by Heat and Crest

  a. Faith in your discovery

  b. Energy

  c. Mindfulness

  d. Samadhi / meditative absorption

 

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