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Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment Illuminating the Path Previously Published by Tdl Publications ILLUMINATING THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT ILLUMINATING THE PATH PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BY TDL PUBLICATIONS Mirror of Wisdom, by Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen TO ENLIGHTENMENT PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED BY THE LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE Tenzin Gyatso HIS HOLINESS Becoming Your Own Therapist, by Lama Yeshe THE FOURTEENTH DALAI LAMA OF TIBET Advice for Monks and Nuns, by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche Virtue and Reality, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Make Your Mind an Ocean, by Lama Yeshe Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche A COMMENTARY ON ATISHA DIPAMKARA SHRIJNANA’S Daily Purification: A Sho r t Vaj ra s a t t v a Prac t i c e , by Lama Zopa Rinpoche A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism, by Lama Yeshe AND LAMA JE TSONG KHAPA’S Making Life Meaningful, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Lines of Experience Teachings from the Mani Retreat, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Direct and Unmistaken Method, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Translated by FOR INITIATES ONLY GESHE THUPTEN JINPA A Chat about Heruka, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche Edited by A Chat about Yamantaka, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche REBECCA MCCLEN NOVICK, THUPTEN JINPA AND NICHOLAS RIBUSH Produced by the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, Boston, Massachusetts for Thubten Dhargye Ling Publications, Long Beach, California www.tdling.com CONTENTS First published 2002 FOREWORD 20,000 copies for free distribution by Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen....i THUBTEN DHARGYE LING PROLOGUE PO Box 90665 Universal Responsibility....v Long Beach CA 90809, USA Question and answer period....xii © Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, 2002 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION....1 The purpose of Dharma practice....3 Please do not reproduce any part of this book by any means Intellectual and experiential understanding....6 whatsoever without our permission The basis for transformation....7 ISBN 0-9623421-6-5 Investigating the nature of reality....10 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 2. FEATURES OF THE LAM-RIM TEACHINGS....13 Cover photos by Don Farber Book design by L.J.Sawlit Atisha’s Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment....13 Lamp for the Path: Verse 1....13 Printed in Canada on recycled, acid-free paper The meaning of the title....14 The objects of salutation....15 The two truths....17 The Four Noble Truths....18 The Three Jewels: Buddha, Dharma and Sangha....21 Lama Tsong Khapa’s Lines of Experience....22 The origin of the lam-rim teachings: the greatness of the authors....25 Lines of Experience: Verse 1....27 Lines of Experience: Verse 2....30 Lines of Experience: Verse 3....31 Lines of Experience: Verse 11....83 Lines of Experience: Verse 4....34 Observing the law of karma....85 Lines of Experience: Verse 5....37 Lines of Experience: Verse 12....88 The greatness of the lam-rim teachings....39 Purification of negative karma: the four opponent powers....89 Lines of Experience: Verses 6 & 7....39 Question and answer period....91 Question and answer period....42 6. SEEKING FREEDOM FROM CYCLIC EXISTENCE....93 3. RELYING ON A SPIRITUAL TEACHER....47 Renunciation....93 The qualities of a teacher....47 Lamp for the Path: Verse 4....93 Lines of Experience: Verse 8....47 Understanding the nature of cyclic existence....94 The practice of reliance....52 Lines of Experience: Verse 13....94 Lines of Experience: Verse 9....52 Question and answer period....100 The qualities of the spiritual teacher....53 The qualities of the student....57 7. CULTIVATING THE ALTRUISTIC INTENTION OF BODHICITTA....103 Establishing proper reliance....60 Lamp for the Path: Verse 5....103 Question and answer period....62 Lines of Experience: Verse 14....104 Lamp for the Path: Verse 6....105 4. BECOMING INSPIRED TO PRACTICE DHARMA....67 Lamp for the Path: Verses 7 to 18....106 Levels of spiritual trainees....67 The importance of bodhicitta....108 Lamp for the Path: Verse 2....67 Lamp for the Path: Verse 3....69 8. THE CEREMONY FOR GENERATING BODHICITTA....113 Developing faith in karma....69 Introduction....113 The three levels of refuge....71 The seven-limb practice....114 The value and transient nature of human existence....72 Homage....115 Lines of Experience: Verse 10....72 Offering....115 Meditation: cultivating mental discipline....73 Confessing....115 Death and rebirth....78 Rejoicing....116 The twelve links....81 Requesting....117 Beseeching....118 5. REFUGE, KARMA AND PRECEPTS....83 Dedication....118 Taking refuge....83 The actual ceremony for generating bodhicitta....118 9. BODHISATTVA OUTLOOK AND ACTION....121 The nature of wisdom....142 Taking the bodhisattva vows....121 Lamp for the Path: Verse 47....142 Lamp for the Path: Verse 18....121 Emptiness according to different Buddhist schools....142 Lamp for the Path: Verse 19....122 Dependent origination....146 Lamp for the Path: Verse 20....122 Establishing emptiness through reasoning....148 Lamp for the Path: Verse 21....123 Lamp for the Path: Verses 48 through 50....148 Lamp for the Path: Verse 22....124 Meditation on emptiness....154 Lamp for the Path: Verse 23....124 Lamp for the Path: Verses 51 through 54....155 Lamp for the Path: Verse 24....124 The non-conceptual understanding of emptiness....156 Lamp for the Path: Verses 25 through 31....125 Lamp for the Path: Verses 55 through 59....157 Lamp for the Path: Verse 32....126 The union of calm abiding and penetrative insight....158 The practice of the first five perfections....127 Lines of Experience: Verse 21....158 The perfection of generosity....127 Lines of Experience: Verse 22....159 Lines of Experience: Verse 15....127 Lines of Experience: Verse 23....160 The perfection of ethical discipline....128 The Vajrayana path....161 Lines of Experience: Verse 16....128 Lamp for the Path: Verse 60....161 The perfection of forbearance....128 Lamp for the Path: Verses 61 through 67....161 Lines of Experience: Verse 17....128 Lines of Experience: Verse 24....162 The perfection of joyous effort....129 Question and answer period....163 Lines of Experience: Verse 18....129 Dedication....165 The perfection of concentration....130 Lamp for the Path: Verse 68....165 Lamp for the Path: Verses 33 through 38....130 Lines of Experience: Verse 25....165 Lines of experience: Verse 19....132 Lamp for the Path: Verses 39 & 40....132 APPENDICES Appendix 1. A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment....167 10. THE PERFECTION OF WISDOM....139 Appendix 2. Lines of Experience....179 The importance of the perfection of wisdom....139 NOTES....187 Lamp for the Path: Verse 41....139 BIBLIOGRAPHY....191 Lamp for the Path: Verse 42....139 GLOSSARY....194 Lamp for the Path: Verses 43 through 46....140 Lines of Experience: Verse 20....140 Stuart Scudder, Jeff Abrams, Chiyoko Aita, Mary Alexander, Janice Allen & Jim Davidson, Renee Allen, Nancy Andersen, Steve Anderson, Ruben Anton, Vicari Antonina, Diane April, Bettina Aptheker, Harvey Aronson, Deborah Arthur, Santina Aruta, Stephen Ascue, Darlene Ashley, Susan Augustson, Beatrice Avcollie, Babs Aydelott, Ikuko Bacon, PUBLISHER’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Richard Baldwin, Christie Banks, Laura Baptista, Marguerite Barton & Vo-Thi-Cuc, Andrea Beardsley, Dory Beatrice, Captain Peter Beauclerk, HIS IS THE SECOND BOOK PUBLISHED by Thubten Dhargye Ling Kathleen Becker,Yong Meng Beh, George Bekey, Alexa Bell, Nancy T Publications for free distribution. We have been very gratified by Bessette, Karen Blackwell, Michele Bohana, Vladamir Bojov, Sharon the excellent response to our first, Mirror of Wisdom, by Venerable Geshe B o n n e y, Bernadette Boschert, Denise T. Bourque, Llance Bowe r, Tsultim Gyeltsen, our spiritual master and director, and feel sure that Fadhilla Bradley, Emilio Briceno, Don Broderson, Ross Brooke, Bonnie readers will enjoy Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment. Brown, Lorraine Brown, Sergio Bruno, Kimoanh N. Bui, Ingrid We are extremely grateful to His Holiness the Dalai Lama for accept- Buraczenski, Danielle Cagaanan, Aryeri Calderon, Marsha Camblin, ing Geshe Gyeltsen’s invitation to teach in Los Angeles in 2000, for Anne Cannon, Alex Cao, Christina Huong Cao, Chuong Cao & choosing to offer us his commentaries on the profound texts, A Lamp for Quynh M. Do, Julie Chang, Neil Chase, Robert Chase, Celia Chavez, the Path to Enlightenment, by Atisha Dipamkara Shrijnana, and Lines of Elizabeth Ann Chavez, Charng-Jui Chen, Jason Chen, Ling Chun Experience, by Lama Tsong Khapa, and in particular, for giving us per- Chen, Lotte Cherin, Herbert Chissell, Tenzin Chodron, Thubten mission to publish this book for free distribution. Chodron, Florence P. Chotiner, Neil Christopherson, Barbara Clark, We also would like to express our gratitude to Geshe Thupten Jinpa Eden Clearbrook, Michelle D. Coe, Colorado Mt. Zen Center, Horatio for his expert translation during the teachings and for his work in Costa, William Coulter, Dorothy Crompton, Hazel Crosbie, Kristin reviewing the translation and his numerous editorial suggestions for Crowell, Ruby Cubano, James Culnan, Dennis Cuocco, David Curtis, improving the manuscript while it was in preparation. Frank Damavandi, Loan Kim Dang, Dung Phuong Dao, Tom Dawson, We would also like to thank Rebecca McClen Novick and Dr. Jamie Delman, Brian M. Delrosario, Virgie Demanski, Yolanda De Nicholas Ribush for editing the book, Lisa Sawlit for designing it and Silva, Trish Devitt, Theresa Dhondup, Camille N. Do, Janet Do, the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive for supervising its production. Kimberly Do, Ani Losang Dolma, Jeffrey Dreher, Marie C. Droney, We extend heartfelt thanks to the many kind benefactors whose gen- Sheila Duddy,Ty Ebright, Elsa Echevarria, Laurence Eggers, Pamela erous donations made this work possible.
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