According to Lama Tsong Khapa, irreversible complete refuge in the Buddha Jewel, Dharma Jewel and Sangha Jewel is the basis for generating the path. Jetsun Chokyi Gyaltsen: The nature or way of refuge: In dependence on these two cause for refuge, the mind being transformed into complete trust, from the depth of the mind, that […]
☞ Briefly Conscientiousness is an awareness not under the control of the afflictions while abiding in enthusiastic effort toward remaining free from afflictions. It accomplishes virtue and protects the mind from contaminated phenomena. ☞ Elaborately Definition: Conscientiousness is an awareness that, while abiding with enthusiasm within non-attachment, non-anger and non-ignorance, protects the meditation on virtue […]
☞ Definition: Pliancy is the mere workability of body and mind that comes about through having severed the continuity of physical and mental destructive tendencies. ☞ Pliancy has the function of eliminating all obscurations. ☞ Being a consciousness that has cut off the continuity of physical and mental negative tendencies, pliancy creates the imprints for […]
Definition: Non-attachment is a consciousness endowed with renunciation that lacks attachment to samsara and samsaric perfections. Its function is to act as the basis for not engaging into negative actions. Non-attachment in the context of giving up the happiness of this life and directing one’s attention to the happiness of the next life is the […]
Definition: Faith is a clarity, an aspiring belief and a wish with regard to qualities, mere existence and ability, respectively. ☞ There is a threefold division of faith: Clarifying faith Faith of belief Aspiring faith 1. Clarifying faith is a clear awareness that is generated through seeing the qualities of objects which actually have qualities, […]
Definition: Wisdom is a mental factor that thoroughly discerns the object of analysis. It discerns in detail the faults and qualities of the object and has the function of eliminating doubt: e.g., it analyses whether an action is beneficial or harmful. The objects to be investigated by wisdom are virtue, non-virtue and non-predicted phenomena. Wisdom […]
☞ Calm Abiding: Jetsün Chokyi Gyaltsen: A concentration held by the bliss of pliancy, which can remain in equipoise on its object however much it likes, attained in dependence on the nine stages of mental stabilization. It is called calm abiding because upon having calmed the movement of the mind to outer objects, it abides […]
Lama Tsong Khapa: The nature of mental stabilization is a virtuous mind abiding single-pointedly on its object, without mental wandering. Shantideva: They who wish to protect the trainings [1] Protect the mind after focusing it strongly. Without protecting this mind It is impossible to protect the trainings. Gyaltsab Je: Showing in Brief the Necessity of […]
Lama Tsong Khapa: “The nature of enthusiasm: Having focussed on the object of virtue, being in the aspect of strong joy.” Briefly Enthusiasm is joy in virtue. It is the antidote against laziness and has the function of perfectly accomplishing and completing one’s virtuous practice. Elaborately Definition: From the Compendium of Knowledge: What is enthusiasm? […]
Lama Tsong Khapa: The nature of patience is a naturally abiding mind, undisturbed by harm or suffering, and which abides on the dharma as originally aspired. Patience as a three-fold division into: Patience unaffected by harm Patience willingly bearing suffering Patience of definitely relying on the dharma. Shantideva: Unsubdued sentient beings equal space, [12] Destroying […]
Lama Tsong Khapa: The nature of ethics is the intent of abandonment, mentally reversing from harming others. This is mainly from the point of view of the ethics of restraint. Gyaltsab Je: Morality Depends On the Mind (Completing the Morality Gone Beyond Does Not Depend on the Absence of Sentient Beings that One Could Kill; […]
Lama Tsong Khapa: The definition of generosity is the virtuous intent to give. It is generated by developing the antidote to miserliness and generating the wish to give away our possessions.
The definition of close placement (of wisdom) by mindfulness on phenomena is: An exalted knower on the path, that is contained in either mindfulness or wisdom, and which meditates by investigating the general and specific characteristics of mental factors. In short: Wisdom, a discriminating awareness is placed by mindfulness on the virtuous and non-virtuous mental […]
The definition of close placement (of wisdom) by mindfulness on mind is: An exalted knower on the path, that is contained in either mindfulness or wisdom, and which meditates by investigating the general and specific characteristics of mind. In short: Wisdom, a discriminating awareness is placed by mindfulness on mind, to investigate its general and […]
The definition of close placement (of wisdom) by mindfulness on feelings: An exalted knower on the path, that is contained in either mindfulness or wisdom, and which meditates by investigating the general and specific characteristics of feelings. There are three types of feelings: Happiness Suffering Equanimity Wisdom, a discriminating awareness is placed by mindfulness on […]
Lama Yeshe comes alive in this archival Super8 footage filmed while Lama was visiting people and places in Dharamsala, Santa Cruz, Boulder Creek, Seattle, and Cumbria, 1978-1982. © Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
