The Excellence and Benefits of Bodhicitta
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Can you describe the example of the miraculous fruit-bearing tree on bodhicitta?
Can you describe the example of the heroic bodyguard on bodhicitta?
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Can you describe the example of bodhicitta explained in other texts?
How does Maitreya explain bodhicitta is engendered in the Sutralankara?
Can you explain the power of meeting a spiritual friend? (Maitreya - Sutralankara).
Can you explain the power of the cause? (Maitreya- Sutralankara).
Can you explain the power of the root? (Maitreya - Sutralankara).
When the attitude of bodhicitta is generated, what is it (3 perspectives)?
2. Main mind = Vimuktasena & Haribhadra.
3. Both a mental factor & main mind = Longchenpa. They are simultaneously generated.
1 & 2 considered this uppermost, so not wrong or at variance.
What are the 2 characteristics or aims of bodhicitta?
Sutralankara: "The cultivation of bodhicitta is the wish to attain perfect buddhahood for the sake of others."
How is subtle bodhicitta engendered according to Maitreya?
"When the perfect Buddhas have been pleased,
When the gatherings of wisdom and of merit have been made,
Then nonconceptual wisdom with regard to all phenomena
Is born, and it is known as ultimate."
What are the other ways that bodhicitta can be classified? (3 ways).
According to the Prajnaparamitra Sutras, the grounds of realization, there are 22 kinds of bodhicitta.
According to the Sagaramatiparipriccha Sutra, bodhicitta is classified into 80 unceasing factors.
What are the essential 2 kinds of bodhicitta? What is the difference between them?
- The wish to go somewhere.
- Actually travelling to one's destination.
How does the master Jnanapada identify the two bodhicittas?
The bodhicitta of action is connected to beings on the noble grounds of realization.
How do Abhayakara & Jnanakirti identify the two bodhicittas?
Bodhicitta in action is associated with the path of joining onward.
How do Shantipa, Ratnakara & Sagaramegha identify the two bodhicittas?
Bodhicitta in action is when the wish to attain enlightenment is ritually expressed.
How does Prajnakaramati identify the two bodhicittas?
Bodhicitta in action is a state of mind that does eventuate in Bodhisattva activities.
How does Atisha identify the two bodhicittas?
Bodhicitta in action focuses on the cause, namely the path. Defined as commitments related to the cause and result.
Longchenpa agrees with Atisha here.
How do other authorities identify the two bodhicittas?
Bodhicitta in action is what arises when they achieve this level. Noble beings.
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