Wednesday's Recommended Reading

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From Dilgo Khyentse's
"The Heart Treasure of the Enlightened Ones,"
lets read from the Commentary on pg. 60-61 and
let's also read from the root text on page 181.





In today's selection from Dilgo Khyentse's commentary we can read:

"Lord Buddha's teachings are
inconceivably extensive and profound.

To attain an exhaustive
intellectual understanding of them
would indeed be a rare and
remarkable achievement.

But even that would NOT
be enough by itself.

Unless we also achieve inner realization
by actually applying the teachings
and mingling them with our minds,
whatever knowledge we may gain

remains theoretical and
will only serve to increase our self-infatuation.

We have read a lot of books
and heard a lot of teachings, but
it hasn't been of much benefit in
really transforming our being.

Leaving the doctor's prescription by
the bedside will NOT cure the illness.

So turn your mind inward and
ponder deeply the meaning of the Dharma until
it permeates your whole being."


From the Dalai Lama's
"The Path to Enlightenment,"
lets read page 82-83 and
let's also read from the biography of
the 3rd Dalai Lama on page 217.





In today's selection the 3rd Dalai Lama explains:

"...practitioners of the initial perspective are
those who do NOT work for the pleasures of
THIS life, but instead set their minds upon the
practices leading to rebirth
either in a heaven or as a human being.

...intermediate practitioners turn their
backs on the securities and joys of higher
sam-sa-ric positions and take up the practices
of the three higher trainings-

[1] ethical discipline,
[2] concentration, and
[3] wisdom -

in order to attain for themselves that
liberation which is free of all cyclic compulsions,
such as Kar-ma and delusion.

...supreme practitioners are those who,
empowered by great compassion,
take up such methods as

[1] the six perfections and
[2] the two stages of tantra

in order to attain full buddhahood for themselves
as a method of extinguish the suffering of others.

...there is NO door to the Ma-ha-ya-na other than
the bo-dhi mind,
and this bodhimind is the unique quality of
practitioners of highest perspective.

One MUST therefore develop it.

...as a prerequisite to bodhimind,
one MUST generate great compassion
unable to tolerate the sufferings
of ALL sentient beings."



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In today's exploration of
the " "Beginning Collection of Practices" "
we could consider:


"Inscription" is simply another way of
referring to the techniques of "Contemplative Notation."

It is said that European musical notation was
invented by a Catholic Monk during the middle ages.

Before that time one could only play what
they had heard or
what they invented.

The advent of Musical notation changed all that, and
allowed musicians to play any piece that
their coordination would permit.

In fact, it could be argued that withOUT the
advent of Musical notation notation, the
major symphonic works, that we could take for granted,
could have never come into being.

Likewise, the proper use of Contemplative Notation
could speed up one's visceral understanding of
Buddha's methods and so increase your skill that
spiritual development could not only be insured,
but even accelerated!

So if the first "I", Inscription,
refers to Contemplative notation,
then what of the second "I"; Inquisition?
What does that mean?

Perhaps you could find out tomorrow.



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Om Mani Padme Hum,
Lama Jigme Gyatso: Rime Manipa Tantrika


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