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| | BUDDHISM - URDAY.com |
 | | It is explained in the Buddhist scriptures that before attaining enlightenment, it is imperative that one creates the 'Bodhichitta'. | | | To attain this state of Bodhichitta or to attain enlightenment, it is imperative that a code of conduct or 'Charya' is followed regularly. | | | One can come across 2 categories or bifurcations about Bodhichitta in the Buddhist scripture. |
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http://www.urday.com/bodhicharya.htm
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| | Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - SHANTIDEVA |
| | Bodhichitta is therefore an event which falls outside the causality of ordinary mind and nature, a kind of grace from Buddha or from an enlightened Guru. | | | Rejoicing in the seemingly miraculous manifestation of bodhichitta within one's deepest consciousness leads naturally to an overwhelming sense of gratitude, which Shantideva expressed in terms of the Tathagatas, the Jewel of the True Dharma and all the Buddha-sons, that is, to the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha mystically transfigured in the light of bodhichitta. | | | The arising of bodhichitta completes one's birth as a human being, for one becomes a Buddhaputra, a Buddha-son, a member of the Buddhakula, the Buddha family. |
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http://www.theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/Shantideva.htm
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| | Bodhichitta is the very essence of all eighty-four thousand instructions of Buddha. | | | Geshe-la explains in Joyful Path that bodhichitta is the king of all minds: For aeons Buddhas have been investigating what is the most beneficial thing for us. | | | All Buddhas come from bodhichitta, so the real cause of all happiness is bodhichitta. |
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http://www.meditation-geneve.org/en/class_notes/The_Supreme_Good_Heart.doc
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| | Related keywords: bodhicitta, bodhichitta, compassion, buddha, dharma, buddhist teachings, tibetan buddhism, mahayana, compassion, meditation, enlightenment, four noble truths, six perfections, the dalai lama, lama zopa, lama yeshe. |
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http://www.dackom.com/bodhichitta.html
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| | DharmaJim's Realms: Bodhichitta |
| | In Mahayana Buddhism the mind of Bodhichitta means practicing for the benefit of others, and ultimately practicing to assist all sentient beings. | | | That something else is Bodhichitta, which means the "mind of illumination". | | | And when self-concern is dominant, practice has a kind of sticky feel to it; because I am evaluating the practice, judging its results. |
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http://www.fraughtwithperil.com/blogs/realms/archives/000182.html
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| | The Seven-Part Cause and Effect Guideline for Developing Bodhichitta |
| | The point is to help us with the next step of the bodhichitta meditation, which is, having recognizing the kindness we have received, to develop the wish to repay that kindness. | | | It is clear already from this step that in these bodhichitta meditations we are striving to become Buddhas to help everybody, but without inflating the role that we can play in helping them. | | | The next steps in the bodhichitta meditation, however, are not there. |
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http://www.berzinarchives.com/sutra/sutra_level_2/seven-part_cause_effect_guideline_developing_bodhichitta%20.html
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > BODHICHITTA |
| | Similarly, bodhichitta is the potential within us for infinite compassion, but that does not mean that it can not be attained. | | | According to my teacher, Bodhichitta is "The spontaneous wish to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all living beings." It is needed in order to help others attain liberation and enlightenment, and to achieve full enlightenment oneself. | | | That is why the Buddha taught the Fourth Noble Truth, the truth of the path which leads to the cessation of all sorrow and awakening to the deathless and unborn for all sentient beings. |
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http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t83.html
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| | The Barely Attentive Mother: Bodhichitta: another tool in my anti-depression kit |
| | Bodhichitta is the desire to attain enlightenment for the sake of others. | | | Bodhichitta is different than both the Zen nonstriving approach and the American me-first goal of personal achievement. | | | Searching google for the terms Buddhism and depression led me to bodhichitta, a concept with which I'm familiar but have not studied much and have not tried to express in my novice attempts at Buddhist behavior. |
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http://adtz.blogs.com/bare/2004/10/bodhichitta_ano.html
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| | Tashi Deleg! - The Padma Samye Ling Monthly Bulletin |
| | The cause of Bodhichitta is compassion and the desire for the enlightenment of all sentient beings. | | | In order to follow the practice of Bodhichitta, to raise Bodhichitta, there are two different aspects: one is called the aspiration and the other is called the actual practice of entering. | | | In the precious mind of Bodhichitta, there is a quote by Patrul Rinpoche which says that to have the Bodhichitta mind is the highest, supreme possession; if one does not possess the Bodhichitta-mind, it is impossible to reach Buddhahood. |
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http://www.transponent.com/webapps/padma.apoye.com/tashideleg/index.jsp?storyId=bodhicitta_1
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| | BODHICHITTA - Jewel in the Lotus - Reading Number 543 |
| | Bodhichitta is the great Sun which dispels the darkness of the world's ignorance. | | | Just as the earth, the other three elements, and space eternally nourish and sustain all beings, so may I become that source of nourishment and sustenance which maintains all beings situated throughout space, so long as all have not attained to Peace. | | | So too I commit myself to the Bodhichitta for the welfare of all beings, and will gradually establish myself in the practice of a Bodhisattva. |
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http://theosophy.org/tlodocs/Readings/543.htm
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| | Bodhisattva Vows |
| | The bodhichitta vows are the means to help other living beings, the means to avoid harming them and the way to accumulate merit. | | | So it is important to ensure not only that your bodhichitta vows do not degenerate during this life, but also that circumstances do not arise that will prevent you from maintaining the practice of the vows in future lives. | | | The following description of the bodhichitta vows is given according to the 'Compendium of Trainings by Shantideva the Luminous Jewel Garland of Instructions on the Three Vows' by Gelong Tsewang Samdrub, and teachings by Geshe Tashi in London (February and March 2001) which were based on Lama Tsong Khapa's commentary. |
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http://www.omplace.com/omsites/Buddhism/bodhisattvavows.html
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| | Theosophy Library Online - Great Teacher Series - THE FOURTH PANCHEN LAMA |
| | Equanimity is the basis for meditating upon the seven steps to arouse bodhichitta. | | | A monk who had memorized a root text could contemplate it wherever he went and during any activity, and he could turn to a commentary for advice on how to translate the spirit of the text into an unfolding series of meditative practices. | | | The guiding principle that is the cause of attaining the dharmakaya, mind of Buddha, is accumulation of wisdom. |
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http://www.theosophy.org/tlodocs/teachers/FourthPanchenLama.htm
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| | tysonwilliams.com: Bodhichitta and its Benefits |
| | - if you have the wish for the enlightenment or Bodhichitta, it is possible you will reach enlightenment in one lifetime, because you will be able to practice the secret teachings of Buddhism or Tantra and it will work. | | | It is one of Lam Tso Nam Sum or the Three Principal Paths. |
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http://www.tysonwilliams.com/archives/bodhichitta_and_its_benefits.html
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| | Wisdom Books - focusing on Buddhism, Meditation, Tibet and the rapidly developing dialogue between east - west ... |
| | Literally meaning, the thought, or mind of enlightenment, Bodhichitta (bodhicitta as it is more correctly known in Sanskrit) — is that finest of all spiritual aspirations, the unshakeable determination to become fully enlightened for the sake of all other beings, even at the cost of putting oneself last. | | | Born in the poor, remote Indian Himalayan region of Kinnaur, into a Drukpa Kagyu family, Tenzin Gyaltsen, or Khunu Rinpoche, was an extremely humble and kind Lama who devoted his life to the development of bodhichitta, and he is revered by Tibetan Buddhists of all schools. | | | Among his many students was the present Dalai Lama, who often refers to Khunu Lama whenever he teaches on bodhichitta and who received the transmission of Shantideva’s Bodhicharyavatara from him. |
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http://www.wisdom-books.com/FocusDetail.asp?FocusRef=2
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| | The Heart of The Buddha |
| | Since the realization of bodhichitta requires a long period of practice, once you have slight experience, it is vital that you affirm your cultivation of bodhichitta through aspirational prayers. | | | There is also no danger of becoming disillusioned or disheartened as a result of practicing bodhichitta, whereas in meditations on deity yoga, reciting mantras and so on, there is a danger of becoming disillusioned, because we often enter into such practices with too high an expectation. | | | If you feel hesitant about being able to observe the bodhisattva vows, then it is best not to make the pledge; you can still generate an altruistic mind and wish that all sentient beings may be happy and pray that you may be able to attain full enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. |
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http://www.shambhalasun.com/Archives/Features/2005/March/theheartofthebuddha.htm
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| | Avalokitesvara Teaching by Yangthang Rinpoche |
| | The essence of the mind of all the buddhas and bodhisattvas is the bodhichitta, the awakened mind. | | | Avalokiteshvara has many different emanations and many different names, but essentially they are one essence, which is the bodhichitta, the nature of the mind of all buddhas. | | | Therefore, we can say that, in a sense, more than accomplishing any other deity, to accomplish Avalokiteshvara alone is sufficient, because Avalokiteshvara is the essence of the mind of all buddhas and thus the essence of all deities. |
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http://www.mirrorofwisdomvideo.org/AvalokitesvarabyYRBLUE.htm
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| | Mind of Awakening |
| | What is important to hear about this bodhichitta is that our very first impulse towards awakening, mysterious as it is, is said to be more difficult to arrive at than the full and complete awakening of a Buddha. | | | First of all, this Bodhi that is involved with bodhichitta is not just wanting to be enlightened yourself. | | | The Lotus Sutra says that Buddhas appear in the world solely for the sake of helping beings enter the way of awakening. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/MindAwake.htm
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| | Developing the Mind of Great Capacity |
| | Visualizing the spiritual guru at your crown, imagine that the guru expresses delight, saying that it is very admirable and you are very fortunate that you have generated bodhichitta and have engaged in the path of cultivating it, and that he shall take you under his care. | | | It can be achieved only by purifying all the faults of one's mind, and only by complementing the practice of wisdom with the practices of method: bodhichitta, compassion and so forth. | | | This is how you should undertake the practice of bodhichitta. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/MindCapacity.htm
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| | Bliss Emptiness and Bodhichitta |
| | Impure or contaminated bliss is impure for 2 reasons. | | | It can also be controlled through tantric sexual yogas so that it keeps burning on rather than climaxing and then ending. | | | Even the defilements become forms of bliss - anger bliss, hatred bliss, envy bliss, ignorance bliss, jealousy bliss, attachment bliss. |
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http://www.homeoint.org/morrell/buddhism/bodhichitta.htm
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| | Leseprobe: Sinnvoll zu betrachten |
| | Um den unübertroffenen Wert von Bodhichitta herauszustreichen, sagte Buddha Shakyamuni, daß es noch wichtiger sei, sich vor einem Bodhisattva — jemandem, der Bodhichitta erzeugt hat — zu verbeugen oder ihm seine Verehrung zu erweisen, als sich vor einem Buddha zu verbeugen. | | | Der einzige Weg, den kostbaren Bodhichitta zu erwerben, besteht darin, ihn durch lange Meditation zu entwickeln. | | | Gandhavyuhasutra) erklärt Buddha Maitreya dem Bodhisattva Sudhana den umfangreichen Nutzen von Bodhichitta. |
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http://www.tharpa.net/Leseproben/SinnvollZuBetrachten.html
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| | Pema Chödrön - Learning to Stay - Feature Article |
| | Sitting meditation, also known as mindfulness-awareness practice, is the foundation of bodhichitta training. | | | We are, as the eighth-century Buddhist master Shantideva pointed out, very much like a blind person who finds a jewel buried in a heap of garbage. | | | Sitting meditation cultivates loving-kindness and compassion, the relative qualities of bodhichitta. |
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http://www.soulfuliving.com/learning_to_stay.htm
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| | Taking Refuge and Bodhichitta |
| | It is for this reason that the distinction between a practising Buddhist and a non-Buddhist is made on the basis of whether or not an individual has taken Refuge in the Three Jewels. | | | Technically, we become a Buddhist when we decide to take Refuge in the Three Jewels, and when we generate bodhichitta, which is known as compassion, the altruistic mind, or our good heart. | | | First, I will introduce these principles in traditional Buddhist terms. |
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http://www.uky.edu/StudentOrgs/UKBA/refuge_DL.htm
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| | Stages of Bodhichitta |
| | Corresponding to the two truths as defined in the Mahayana tenets, there are two bodhichitta aims: | | | There, Buddha explained that engaged bodhichitta has two mental factors included in it: | | | [See: Conventional and Deepest Bodhichitta and the Two Truths in Anuttarayoga Tantra.] |
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http://www.berzinarchives.com/sutra/sutra_level_2/stages_bodhichitta.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times |
| | She teaches us that through the heart practices of sitting meditation (the "natural seat" and "home ground" of bodhichitta training, p. | | | To escape this prison, Chodron encourages us to live life with an enlightened heart and mind ("bodhichitta"), and by analogy, with the "rawness of a broken heart" (p. | | | by Pema Chodron "When I was about six years old I received the essential bodhichitta teaching from an old woman sitting in the sun..." (more) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1570624097?v=glance
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| | BodhiFengshui = Bodhichitta + Classical Feng Shui |
| | Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word for 'mind of enlightenment'. | | | Feng Shui, originally known as 'kanyu' is about living in harmony with nature. | | | Bodhichitta is a primary mind motivated by great compassion that spontaneously seeks enlightenment to benefit all sentient beings. |
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http://www.bodhichitta.com/fengshui/fswelcome.php
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| | Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness by Chogyam Trungpa |
| | According to the medieval Indian and Tibetan traditions, the traditional way of cultivating relative bodhichitta is to choose your mother as the first example of someone you feel soft toward. | | | Alaya is a Sanskrit word meaning "basis," or sometimes "abode" or "home," as in Himalaya, "abode of snow." So it has that idea of a vast range. | | | On the other hand, it is also very enlightening, as bodhichitta should be. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/tib/training.htm
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| | Citta and Bodhichitta |
| | Bodhichitta is the quality of mind of a Bodhisattva, one who has chosen to do spiritual practice for the benefit of all beings everywhere, without exception. | | | Any practice offered through teachings offered here becomes a bodhisattva pracitice, when done with this noble intention. |
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http://www.citta101.org/citta.htm
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| | Fearless Simplicity, Tsoknyi Rinpoche - Buddhist books from Rangjung Yeshe Publications |
| | Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, who is one of my root gurus, would teach on motivation over and over again. | | | To look down upon it as an inferior or unimportant practice seri¬ously detracts from real progress in spiritual practice. | | | This compassionate attitude of bodhichitta should encompass one¬self as well as all others. |
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http://www.rangjung.com/books/fearless-excerpt.htm
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| | Pema Chödrön |
| | That's where we would start this practice, with what is a second step on the sheet. | | | Keep saying the words and even saying more words if you want to kind of bring it out more. | | | The bodhichitta is there in that feeling of blocking or "I can't do it" or whatever it might be. |
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http://www.shambhala.org/teachers/pema/compassion.php
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| | tysonwilliams.com: Bodhichitta's Mental Awareness |
| | This type of explanation of the different forms of definition of the Bodhichitta disallows the two lower types of Listener's and self-made Buddhas to achieve full and total enlightenment because they only strive to achieve it for their own benefit. | | | There couple of different types of Bodhichitta: one is to achieve full and total state of Buddhahood and couple of lower types of wishes which belong to lower scopes of Listeners and self-made Buddhas. | | | Bodhichitta is the main state of mind not just mental function (ie. |
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http://www.tysonwilliams.com/archives/bodhichittas_mental_awareness.html
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| | Achieving Bodhichitta |
| | These two instructions are presented according to the unique system established by Je Tsongkapa, which combines them into an eleven-step method of practice. | | | This book includes a concise yet thorough presentation of the instruction for achieving calm abiding (shamatha) based on the explanations found in Je Tsongkapa's Great Exposition on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim Chenmo). | | | Achieving Bodhichitta is a compilation of oral teachings given in the 1980s by Sermey Khensur Lobsang Tharchin on the two methods of achieving bodhichitta--the Sevenfold Instruction on Cause and Effect and Equality and Exchange Between Self and Others. |
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http://www.monmouth.com/~mstp/Descriptions/Books/A_Bodhi.htm
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| | The Everflowing Nectar of Bodhichitta |
| | By putting these eight verses into practice every day of our lives, we can change our normal attitude of self-cherishing into the pure, precious thought of bodhichitta." | | | Bodhichitta is the special brave attitude wishing to attain enlightenment for the purpose of benefiting others. |
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http://www.fpmt.org/Education/booklets/bodhichitta.asp
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| | Burningbird » Filters |
| | Bodhichitta is a Sanskrit word that means “noble or awakened heart.” It is said to be present in all beings. | | | This is from a book I bought last week called “When Things Fall Apart” by a woman named Pema Chodron, and from the chapter called, “The Love That Will Not Die”: | | | Bodhichitta is available in moments of caring for things, when we clean our glasses or brush our hair. |
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http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000712.htm
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| | Show Writings |
| | bodhichitta as action: all we do to fulfill this aspiration | | | Of these three, the most important is the mind. | | | Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Excellent Path to Enlightenment- chapter on Bodhichitta, the Thought of Enlightenment. |
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http://www.prairiesangha.org/articles/displayArticles.cfm?ID=140
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| | Bodhichitta of BuddhistLinks.org |
| | Bodhichitta: The Mind of Awakening by Taigen Leighton, excerpts from lecture at Hartford Street Zen Center - http://www.mtsource.org/talks/bodhichitta.html | | | Conventional and Deepest Bodhichitta and the Two Truths in Anuttarayoga Tantra by Alexander Berzin - http://www.berzinarchives.com/tantra/conventional_deep_bodhichitta.html | | | Arousing Bodhichitta - sample chapter from Seven Points of Mind Training by Thrangu Rinpoche - http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:l7mUUbDbjpIJ:www.rinpoche.com/nbp/PDFCHAPTERS/15%20Seven%20Points%20Sample.pdf+bodhichittaandhl=enandstart=15andlr=lang_enandie=UTF-8 |
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http://www.buddhistlinks.org/Bodhichitta.htm
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| | The Berzin Archives - General Presentation of Shamatha and Vipashyana |
| | the merely aspiring state of aspiring bodhichitta (smon-sems smon-pa-tsam), which pays attention to our future enlightenment merely as the goal we wish to attain, | | | Engaged bodhichitta pays attention to our future enlightenment as a goal that, in order to attain, we fully engage ourselves in the practices that will bring us to it. | | | Therefore, for mental stability and the higher states of concentration, such as shamatha and vipashyana, to be Buddhist, we need to practice and apply them within the context of taking a safe direction in life (taking refuge). |
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http://www.angelfire.com/rings/prasangika/Genera_shamataVipassana.htm
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| | Snow Lion Publications |
| | Je Tsongkapa combined them into an eleven-step method of practice explained here along with meditation instruction. | | | Two main methods of achieving bodhichitta are the Sevenfold Instruction on Cause and Effect and Equality and Exchange between Self and Others. |
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http://www.snowlionpub.com/search.php?cart_id=7343045.5053&item_no=ACBO
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| | Bodhichitta |
| | Then you can appreciate what an act of faith it is to believe in the simplicity of one's own experience. | | | On the other hand, Bodhichitta itself is actually the true nature of reality, it is our changeless nature and therefore accessible right from the very beginning. | | | But I think, surely it must begin to make itself felt, especially after years of practice. |
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http://www.ahs.org.uk/?action=article&ID=1106
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| | Pema Chödrön |
| | You begin to get real when you do this practice, you know. | | | The general subject that we're exploring here is bodhichitta and the awakening and nurturing of bodhichitta, which is said to have these four qualities [maitri, compassion, joy and equanimity]. | | | When we work with bodhichitta and go so far as to take the bodhisattva vow-- but even if we're not taking the vow-- we know that our capacity at this point is fairly limited, and yet we enter in at the level of aspiration. |
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http://www.shambhala.org/teachers/pema/bodhicitta1.php
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| | bodhichitta, |
| | : When serving a karmamudra, the pure awareness : of bliss and emptiness will arise: : Composed in a blessed union of insight and means, : Slowly send down, retain and draw back up the bodhichitta, : And conducting it to the source, saturate the entire body. | | | And conducting it to the source, saturate the entire body. | | | Slowly send down, retain and draw back up the bodhichitta, |
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http://www.khordong.de/forum/messages/1832.html
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| | ★ Reviews of books about china |
| | Many American Tibetan Buddhists love to receive "advanced" practices but neglect bodhichitta - the essence of Buddha's teachings. | | | Very few books have been written like this about an particular Yidam deity. | | | Since Chenrezig is the Yidam deity that is the representation of bodhichitta, how can anyone go wrong by learning more about about the Chenrezig Yidam practice? |
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http://china.vacationbookreview.com/china_14.html
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| | What is Bodhicitta |
| | Engaged bodhichitta means engaging in the practices and behaviour that bring about this goal by taking the bodhisattva vows to restrain from actions detrimental to it. | | | In taking bodhisattva vows the trainee bodhisattva vows to abstain from certain negative acts that would defer the bodhisattva reaching enlightenment and thereby to be of as much benefit to others as is possible. | | | Aspirational bodhichitta is the complete wish to overcome our emotional afflictions and delusions to realise our full potentials to bring all fellow beings to the enlightened state free from suffering. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/WhatBodhicitta.htm
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| | Bodhichitta, a Mente da Iluminação |
| | Do mesmo modo, a análise do mundo dos fenômenos mostra que nenhuma entidade permanente é encontrada. | | | A Bodhichitta não é somente um tipo de altruísmo: ela consiste do voto de nós mesmos atingirmos a perfeição para levarmos todos os seres lá. | | | O aspecto absoluto da Bodhichitta significa permanecer em um estado de contemplação no qual nenhuma entidade é encontrada, tanto no indivíduo quanto no mundo dos fenômenos. |
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http://www.dharmanet.com.br/vajrayana/bodhichitta.htm
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| | The Shambhala Shop |
| | Contemplating the four immeasurables and the six instructions for cultivating bodhichitta gives students effective methods for uncovering their inherent compassion and wakefulness. | | | In this seminar Mipham Rinpoche stresses the importance of regular contemplative practice as an extension of the mindfulness and awareness generated in sitting meditation. |
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http://www.shambhalashop.com/pubsonline/asp/product.asp?product=622&cat=119&ph=&keywords=&recor=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=
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| | The Bodhichitta Centre Company Profile |
| | Milenka says “My aim through the Bodhichitta Centre is to create positive change and growth for my treatment recipients I am dedicated to developing myself through ongoing training A part of this commitment is that I am currently studying to become a Reiki teacher. | | | This will enable me to allow people to take much more responsibility for self, thus allowing me to help a greater amount of... |
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http://www.jayde.com/profile10211966-bodhichittacentre.html
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