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Introduction | |
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The First Point: The Preliminaries, Which Are Fundamental Dharma | |
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First of all, train in the preliminaries | |
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The Second Point: The Main Practice: Training in the Bodhichittas | |
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The Cultivation of Ultimate Bodhichitta | |
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Having attained stability, let the mystery be revealed | |
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Consider the world as dreamlike | |
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Investigate the nature of unborn awareness | |
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Even the antidote itself is liberated in its own place | |
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Establish the nature of the path in the sphere of the foundation of all | |
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Between meditation sessions act as an illusory being | |
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The Cultivation of Relative Bodhichitta | |
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Alternately practice sending and taking | |
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Apply those two to the breath | |
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Three objects, three poisons, three roots of virtue | |
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In all activities train with words | |
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The Third Point: Using Unfavorable Circumstances as Aids to Awakening | |
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When the environment and its inhabitants are enslaved by evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of awakening | |
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Blame everything on one thing | |
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Meditate on great kindness toward everyone | |
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Meditation on the deceptive appearances of the Four Bodies is unsurpassed in guarding emptiness | |
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The supreme method entails four practices | |
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Whatever you encounter, immediately apply it to meditation | |
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The Fourth Point: A Synthesis of Practice for One Life | |
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To synthesize the essence of this practical guidance, apply yourself to the five powers | |
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The Mahayana teaching on transferring consciousness is just these precious five powers | |
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The Fifth Point: The Measure of Having Trained the Mind | |
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All Dharma is included in one purpose | |
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Maintain the chief of the two witnesses | |
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Rely continually on mental happiness alone | |
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The Sixth Point: The Pledges of Mind Training | |
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Always practice the three principles | |
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Transform your desires, but remain as you are | |
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Speak not of degenerate qualities | |
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Think nothing about the other side | |
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Abandon all hope for results | |
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Abandon poisonous food | |
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Do not devote yourself kindly to the central object | |
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Do not laugh at malicious jokes | |
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Do not wait at the narrow passageway | |
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Do not load the burden of a dzo on an ox | |
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Do not direct yourself to the summit of the ascent | |
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Do not be devious | |
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Do not let the gods descend to the devil | |
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Do not seek another's misery as a way to your own happiness | |
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The Seventh Point: The Practices of Mind Training | |
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Practice all yogas by means of one | |
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Counteract all withdrawal by means of one | |
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There are two actions on two occasions, at the beginning and end | |
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Whichever of the opposites occurs, be patient | |
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Guard the two at the cost of your life | |
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Practice the three austerities | |
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Acquire the three principal causes | |
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Cultivate the absence of three degenerations | |
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Be endowed with the three inseparables | |
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Always meditate on those who make you boil | |
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Do not rely on other conditions | |
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Now practice what is most important | |
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Do not be contrary | |
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Do not be erratic | |
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Practice decisively | |
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Free yourself by means of investigation and analysis | |
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Do not be boastful | |
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Do not bind yourself with hatred | |
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Do not be fickle | |
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Do not desire gratitude | |
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Glossary | |