The root of
the path is one's Guru.
(For every
practitioner)
1. Seeking and
establishing relation with Guru
2. Identifying the optimum rebirth
3.
Recalling death and impermanence
4. Thinking about the sufferings of the
Three Unfortunate Beings
This
teaches the means for happiness in your next rebirth
5. Seeking
refuge and ways of taking refuge
6. Developing faith/trust in the law of
karma and effect
Depending on
these understandings and on reflective meditation, one is able to refrain from
all sorts of non-virtuous actions and cultivate all sorts of virtuous actions by
adopting a pure and ethically sound way of life.
This is the
principle path of the Small Scope.
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The Path of
the Medium Scope
Renunciation
is the principle path of the Medium Scope and its goal is Liberation/Nirvana
from the entire suffering of samsara.
7. Developing
thoughts of yearning for Liberation and Ascertaining the nature of the path
leading to Liberation
- Thinking about the general sufferings of samsara and about its specific
sufferings.
- Learning on The Four Noble Truths and The Twelve Interdependent
Arisings
This is the
mode of cutting the very root of suffering which is Ignorance through applying
the very profound meditation practice called the union of single pointedness of
mind and wisdom for the full realization of selflessness.
This is the
principle path of the Medium Scope.
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The Path of the
Great Scope
Development of
bodhicitta/mind of enlightenment
is the sole gateway to the Mahayana/Great
Scope.
8. Developing
the Bodhicitta
- What
one should carry on in one's practice after developing Bodhicitta:
- Training in the 6 perfections of wisdom in order to ripen one's mind
stream
- Training in the 4 ways of gathering disciples in order to ripen the
mind stream of others
The union
practice on the last two perfections of wisdom: single-pointedness and special
insight, conjoined with the force of the first four perfections directed by the
force of love and compassion can only bring energy for the attainment of
Enlightenment of Buddhahood through the elimination of tendencies of
Ignorance.
This is the
principle path of the Great Scope.
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