[5] Great Scope

Higher Motivation

(1) How Bodhicitta is the doorway to practicing the Great Vehicle

  • The six great qualities
  • Why we need renunciation to develop compassion
  • Attaining the fruit of the Mahayana Path
  • The nine-point meditation in accordance with the Three Scopes

(2) The manner of generating Bodhicitta mind

  • The proper bases
  • Four conditions, four causes, and four powers
  • Stages of training in Bodhicitta mind
  • The measure of generating Bodhicitta mind
  • The manner of holding Bodhicitta through ritual

(3) After generating Bodhicitta, the manner of training in the conduct of a Bodhisattva

  • Six reasons that the number is definite
  • The order of the Six Perfections
  • The general conduct: the perfection of generosity
  • The general conduct: the perfection of ethics
  • The general conduct: the perfection of patience
  • The general conduct: the perfection of enthusiastic perseverance

(4) Calming the mind

  • The perfection of concentration

(5) The final perfection

  • The perfection of wisdom

Source: Yangsi Rinpoche. Practicing the Path: A Commentary on the Lamrim Chenmo. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2003.

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