Introduction Course – Part 2: Bodhichitta
Bodhicitta, the precious and excellent mind…..
This course provides simple insight into Bodhicitta (Part 2). Bodhicitta is truly a noble aspiration for anyone to embark on and when practised is of incredible benefit to any one person and to the world as a whole.
What is incorporated in Bodhichitta? Boundless kindness, compassion, joy in equanimity to all sentient beings. In practice it includes generosity, forbearance, discipline, diligence, concentration and wisdom. Bodhicitta is the most important practise in Mahayana Buddhism and in the Great Perfection.
The course is currently in progress and materials will be updated accordingly. If you have just arrived, feel free to start from the beginning.
If you feel uncertain about any of the concepts or ways of meditating, please feel free to contact Lama Lakshyong through [email protected]
Chapters
- Introduction
- The merits of Bodhicitta
- The suffering of self-cherishing and the merits of cherishing others
- The disadvantages of not maintaining Bodhicitta
- Course Meditation practice expectations
- Introducing the four boundless qualities
- Boundless love
- Boundless love :- meditation 1
- Boundless love :- meditation 2
- Boundless love :- meditation 3
- Boundless compassion
- Boundless compassion :- meditation 1 (I)
- Boundless compassion :- meditation 2 (you)
- Boundless compassion :- meditation 3 (we)
- A little on negative emotions....
- Angrrr
- Meditation - both boundless love and compassion (I)
- A little more on negative emotions....
- Meditation - boundless love and compassion (you)
- A little on arrogance and pride
- Meditation - boundless love and compassion (we)
- Meditation - boundless love and compassion (friends and affectionate acquaintances)
- Boundless love
- Boundless compassion
- A little more about negative emotions.... b) Attachment
- Meditation - boundless love and compassion (friends & neutrals)
- Meditation - boundless love and compassion (all beings)
- Afflictions:- Returning Home”.... b) Jealousy
- Boundless Joy (friends and acquaintances)
- Raising Bodhichitta: 7 Point Training
- 7 point training (Countless lives)
- 7 point training (Kindness of our parents)
- 7 point training (Gratitude for our parents kindness)
- Boundless joy meditation (‘enemies’)
- Boundless joy meditation (all sentient beings)
- 7 point training (kindness and compassion)
- 7 point training (Developing responsibility)
- Boundless Joy (‘friends and neutrals’)
- Boundless joy (conclusion)
- Boundless equanimity
- Boundless equanimity meditation
- Boundless equanimity (audio)
- Four Boundless Qualities (Did you have a kind heart today?)
- Exchanging oneself with others (visualisation)
- Exchanging oneself with others (practice)
- Bodhichitta - Tonglen
- Bodhichitta- Loving others more than yourself
- Tonglen meditation (‘Group’)
- Tonglen meditation (‘Individual’)
- Caring for others over oneself
- Introducing the 6 paramitas (1) Generosity
- Forbearance
- Meditative concentration
- Discipline
- Diligence
- Wisdom
- Tonglen practice (all sentient beings)
- Reminder: three supreme methods
- Bodhichitta in every day life