岸本的笔记(117)
現證莊嚴論顯明義疏清涼記 (1)
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师之体解，甚为清凉，几许微妙，寻之生喜。
【清凉记】： 次广明二十二种发心。言所缘亦摄行相。“自性名诠”即发心。“俱有名诠”即利他行。“根本之说”即是所缘。“所缘”指希望等法及地等喻。“行相”即“现时一切白法”云等修行之相。此二十二种所配之...
Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness (3)
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Don’t bring things to a painful point.
Don’t blame your sense of dissatisfaction, pain, and misery on somebody else, and do not try to lay your power trips on others. Whatever power you have—domestic power, literary power, or politica... -
Abandon poisonous food.
If the practice of egolessness begins to become just another way of building up your ego—building your ego by giving up your ego—it is like eating poisonous food; it will not take effect. In fact... -
Abandon any hope of fruition.
This slogan means that you should give up any possibilities of becoming the greatest person in the world by means of your training. In particular, you may quite impatiently expect that because of l...
Not for Happiness (28) 更多
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Signs of Progress
What are the signs of progress in our practices? What can we expect? Should we wait for a signal from the guru---or an award? According to Karma Chagme Rinpoche, we will have no experiences, no spe... -
The Bodhisattvayana: Transforming
In addition to employing the shravakayana’s methods, the bodhisattvayana emphasizes ways of transforming emotions. How? By aspiring to absorb the jealousy of all sentient being, for example, so th... -
The Practice: Self-Empowerment
If the ngondro practice you follow contains slightly different details, don’t worry, just follow your text. How can you tell whether or not you have received the abhisheka? We tend to imagine we h... -
Prayers and What to Pray For
Bless me, Lord Guru! may my mind enter into the dharma, And may the dharma enter into my mind. Bless me, Lord Guru! May dharma practice not be too rough on me. Bless me! May the defilements of the ... -
The Signs of Maturity in a Practitioner
Tsele Natsok Rangdrol said that as a practitioner’s understanding of the view matures , the fussier he will become about apparently trivial causes and conditions; as his experience and realization... -
Mixing Your Mind with Your Guru’s
The key to watching mind is to mix your mind with the guru’s, and it is a practice you can do in all sorts of ordinary situations. As you stand on an escalator on your way to catching a train, for... -
Longing to Feel Connected with Your Guru
Many students like to talk about how they feel when they think of their guru. Some sense a fullness in their hearts and various sensations in their chests, as well as the feeling that they are love... -
The Practice
Karma Chagme said, when beginners like us build a temple, it is impossible to avoid some of unvirtuous thought or action from arising in our minds. Throughout the process, we will face many challen... -
Merit: the Armour That Shields Us from Obstacles
The dharma is said to be absolutely priceless, and like diamond, can cut through all kinds of dualistic nets. We, on the other hand, are more like destitute, ignorant beggars who lack any sense of ... -
Request That the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Do Not Pass into Parinirvana
To request that the buddhas and bodhisattvas remain in samsara and do not pass into parinirvana is how we counter wrong view and doubt. The minds of samsaric beings are dualistic, and dualistic min... -
Bodhichitta of Aspiration: The Practices
There will be times, for example, when you feel you are faking it. However hard you try genuinely to practice, it just doesn’t feel right. And on the rare occasions it does feel authentic, the sen... -
The Objects of Our Compassion
According to Maitreya in the Mahayanasutralamkara, sentient beings, the objects of our compassion, fall into a number of categories: Beings who crave desirable objects Beings under the influence of... -
Bodhichitta of Aspiration
The bodhichitta of aspiration is, relatively speaking, quite an easy practice for beginners. For example, it is easy to aspire to be a king. All you have to do is think, “I wish I were king,”then... -
Develop the Strength of Compassion
Until we have established a complete understanding of bodhichitta, we will continue to make the mistake of imagining that pain truly exists. As a result, we will almost certainly become the victims... -
Bodhichitta: Love, Compassion and the Wisdom of Nonduality
Mahayana practitioners not only wish to liberate all sentient beings from suffering itself but also the causes of suffering, the root of which is the dualistic mind. Consequently, a bodhisattva doe... -
Take Every Opportunity to Practice
According to Patrul Rinpoche, we should follow the example of the hungry yak, who eats every blade of grass he sees without even thinking of saving a patch for later. Try to capitalize on every mom... -
Counting Prostrations: Just Do It!
For many of us, having a goal to aim at really helps. Some people argue that numbers should not matter, but many practitioners find that keeping track of how much practice they do is both a constru... -
Visualize the Refuge Tree
I must stress here that visualize does not mean you should try to paint a picture of the refuge tree in your mind; that would be impossible. Visualization is very like thinking about the person who... -
Visualize the Refuge Tree
At first you may find it difficult to see the field of merit. This happens a lot when you are not yet used to looking at it, perhaps in the same way Australian Aborigines were unable to comprehend ... -
An Authentic Guru Does Not Adjust the Teachings to Turn a Profit
Have you ever enjoyed a cup of traditionally made English tea, poured from a porcelain teapot and served in matching cups and saucers? It is so elegant! The tea itself takes on a completely differe... -
visualisation practice
The main purpose of visualization practice is to purify our ordinary, impure perception of the phenomenal world by developing “pure perception.” unfortunately, though, pure perception is yet anot... -
Good Days and Bad Days
When practise goes well, try not to get overexcited or use that level of concentration and inspiration as a benchmark for all future practice. Tsele Natsok Rangdrol said that dharma practitioners s... -
The Casual and the Resultant Paths
Other people may have the capacity to see things as they would a rainbow, vividly, even blatantly discernible, yet in reality they are aware that nothing is actually there. To this kind of person t... -
A Few Words of Advice Before You Begin
Bear in mind that between starting to practice and the achievement of your first real taste of dharma will be a lengthy period of intense effort. But once you have experienced that first taste, you... -
the structure of the Ngondro
Taking refuge is the first of the preliminary practices, and its purpose is to divert us from the wrong path and onto the right path. Once safely on the right path, we then direct ourselves from th... -
why we do ngondro practice
Buddha explained that human life becomes "precious" when a human being is free and rich. So, what is it that prevents us from being free? Distraction. If we had no distractions, we would be free; a... -
第45页 THE PLACE AND TIME TO PRACTICE
These days, though, just to find the time to be entirely alone to practice can be extremely problematic, especially for those with families, and so to organise the ideal place would be an unimagina... -
第45页 The place and time to Practice
So, if it is easy for you to practice in a cave or by a river or in a cemetery, by all means follow longchenpa' s advice, but if not, there is no need to waste time trying. The most crucial prerequ...
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