Teachings on Sakya Pandita's Clarifying the Sage's Intent 2

Teachings on Sakya Pandita’s Clarifying the Sage’s Intent Lecture 2 2018.03.11 Sakya Tenphel Ling

➤ The intention of gaining the state of shravaka arhat →Shravakayana enlightenment thought

➤ The intention of gaining the state of pratyekabuddha →Pratyekabuddhayana enlightenment thought

➤ The intention of gaining the state of full and perfect enlightenment →The thought of fully enlightened Buddhahood ➤ Mind-Only school ➤ Madhyamika school Bodhisattva Maitreya→Asanga Bodhisattva Manjushri →Nagarjuna →Chandragomin→early Kadampa →Shantideva→other Tibetan school→Gelug school Buddhist schools

Mahayana enlightenment thought

➤ Relative enlightenment thought —Aspiring enlightenment thought: the aspiration to gain the state of full and complete enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. —Engaging enlightenment thought: the resolve to engage in the causes to produce that result.

➤ Ultimate enlightenment thought: the transcendental wisdom directly realizing the real nature of phenomena as ultimately devoid of all characteristics and free from all

conceptualizations. Five ways to produce the relative enlightenment thought

➤ Through a spiritual friend who explains what the enlightenment thought is and what its beneﬁts are.

➤ By awakening one’s race and thereby creating the cause for entering into the enlightenment thought.

➤ By accumulating great amounts of merit

➤ By studying and listening to the teachings

➤ By continuously habituating the mind to perform virtuous deeds. Four traditions of the Mahayana enlightenment thought

➤ Mind-Only school→ Twenty Verses Concerning the Enlightenment Thought, by Acharya Chandragomin.

➤ Madhyamika school→Which is explained below.

➤ Great mahasiddhas→Given during the Lamdre teachings.

➤ Trantric initiation→Reciting the Vajrayana Sevenfold Prayer during initiation. Madhyamika school enlightenment thought

➤ The rituals relating to the aspiring enlightenment.

➤ The rituals relating to the engaging enlightenment thought. The precepts of the aspiring enlightenment thought

➤ Brief precepts

➤ Middle-length precepts —overcoming discouragement at the beginning —overcoming discouragement later —overcoming the wish to abandon the enlightenment thought through fear of worldly existence

➤ The extensive precepts —the cause of generating the enlightenment thought —the methods to enhance our enlightenment thought —the methods to avoid impairing our enlightenment thought Seven worms attend buddhahood Pig attain the state of Arhat Three main causes of death

➤ Exhaustion of life force

➤ Exhaustion of karma from

previous lives

➤ Exhaustion of merits Three types of karma

➤ Strongest karma, which produces results in the present lifetime

➤ Less powerful karma, which produces results in the next lifetime ➤ Weaker karma, which produces results from the third lifetime onwards The methods to enhance our enlightenment thought The methods to avoid impairing our enlightenment thought

(1)To overcome losing faith in the Guru and the Triple Gem

(2)To overcome being jealous about the prosperity of others

(3)To overcome thinking of benefiting ourselves alone

(4)To overcome reluctance towards practising the skillful means of the perfections and contenting ourselves with merely recognizing the nature of the mind

(5)To overcome our ignorance concerning the qualities of the enlightened ones and our consequent lack of motivation to emulate them The precepts of the engaging enlightenment thought

➤ Brief precepts

➤ Middle-length precepts —discarding the four black dharmas —adopting the four white dharmas Four Black Dharma Four White Dharma The precepts of the engaging enlightenment thought

➤ The extensive precepts

—the cause for the engaging enlightenment thought to arise

—how to cultivate the conditions for expanding the engaging

enlightenment thought

—methods for keeping the engaging enlightenment thought