Practical Ethics and Profound Emptiness by Jampa Tegchok

Author:Jampa Tegchok [Tegchok, Jampa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614293354
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

III. The Collections for Awakening

7. Joyfully Taking Up the Boundless Work of a Bodhisattva

Nagarjuna stated three main causes necessary to attain the state of peerless awakening: bodhichitta, wisdom free from the two extremes, and compassion. These three causes are precious; Chandrakirti praises them in his salutation for the Supplement by saying:

The hearers and middling buddhas (solitary realizers) arise from the excellent sages; the excellent sages are born from the bodhisattvas;

the compassionate mind and the nondual awareness, as well the awakening mind — these are the causes of the bodhisattva.

These lines are taught and debated extensively and emphasize the importance of practicing these three causes in order to fulfill the collections of merit and wisdom that lead to the attainment of the truth body and form body of a buddha. It is to the topic of the collections of merit and wisdom that Nagarjuna now turns.

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