Evils, notions of mine forsaken,
Mind of compassion awaken.
Without conceptualization
in meditation.
Offer toward benefit all
merits-accumulation,
With prayers of dedication.
Methods Supreme
Pirlo
May you ascend to the higher realms, find refuge on path to liberation, be without hate, greed, and illusion. May I be of any means to such end.
Ten Conditions to Develop
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
The Five Paths
These five paths (Sanskrit panca-marga, Tibetan lam lnga), toward enlightenment, are referred to many times in “The Ornament of Clear Realization” A Commentary on the Prajnaparamita of the Maitreya Buddha:
Path of Accumulation (S. sambhara-marga, T. chogs lam)
Practice of the four foundation of mindfulness, what to adopt, and what to avoid
Path of Preparation/Unification (S. prayoga-marga, T. sbyor lam)
Profound insight into the Four Noble Truths, cutting of root attachments
Path of Insight/Seeing (S. darsana-marga, T. mthong lam)
Realization of the Four Noble Truths, entry into first bodhisattva level, realizing the emptiness of phenomena
Path of Cultivation/Meditation (S. bhavana-marga, sgom lam)
Development of insight, entry into the second through ninth bodhisattva levels
Path of No-More-Learning (S. asaiksha-marga, T. mi slob pa’i lam)
Also called, Path of Fulfillment (S. nishtha-marga). Attaining complete mediation (S. samadhi), and Buddhahood
On a count
If one must make an accounting,
It is of,
Their own blessings they should
Take to counting.
“The soul’s made of stories, not atoms, everything that ever happened to us—people we loved, people we lost… people we found again against all the odds—“
The Eleventh Doctor
Reflection on Refraction
Faith in Practice
Gap 8 feet
Might as well be
20 if all one can
Jump is 7.
Last foot,
Eventually,
Overcome by
Training, with
Faith in practice.
Sole Bound
Religion what binds
To creed one believes,
Expression of philosophy.
To Love of wisdom
Bind mind.
Cultured
Teach never
with thought
To convert,
But ever
learn.
Dedication of Merit
With intent to:
Arouse skillful means of bodhichitta to ensure accumulation of positive merit; avoid conceptualization so merit is not destroyed by circumstance; seal action by dedicating accumulated merit…
“By this accumulation of virtues, May I attain all-seeing omniscience and may all faults be annihilated. The whirling turbulent waves of birth, old age, sickness and death, from this ocean of Samsara, May I liberate beings.”
All beings are Buddhas, but this is concealed by adventitious stains. When their stains are purified their Buddhahood is revealed.