The Ten Conditions for Omniscience to Develop: The first topic of The Ornament of Clear Realization is the ten causes or causal conditions for wisdom of the Buddha, to be developed:
1. Bodhicitta
We must first develop a desire to help all sentient beings reach enlightenment.
2. Practice instructions
We must learn about the Buddhist path and apply ourself to these instructions. These instructions are found in the five paths.
3. The four stages of definite separation
We must go to through the four stages on the Path of Junction: 1. warming to the experience of emptiness 2. summit to the experience of emptiness 3. forbearance, realization of the dharmata 4. highest worldly dharma, threshold to experiencing true reality.
4. Buddha-nature, the basis for our practice
Our whole development of realization relies on the fact that we and all other sentient beings possess Buddha-nature (Skt. gotra, Tib. rigs).
5. The Objects of Focus
We must realize the emptiness of phenomena and we develop understanding of these through understanding eleven kinds of subjects such as understanding created and uncreated, ordinary and extraordinary, positive and negative actions, etc.
6. The Purpose
We need to understand the purpose for studying the Prajnaparamita and cultivating the bodhisattva path.
7. Armor-like Practice
Finally, there are four different practices we need to do to understand. This practice is perfecting the six paramitas.
8. Applied Practice
We need to then apply the four dhyana meditations to our practice
9. The Practice of Accumulation of wisdom.
We need to practice the accumulation of merit and the accumulation of wisdom
10. The Practice of Certain Release
We need to understand the inseparability of samsara and nirvana