Bodhichitta

Clear advice and instructions for how to live our life as an aspiring bodhisttva.

To reach enlightenment and benefit all others, we need to regard everyone as equal and instead of cherishing only ourselves, cherish all others as our primary concern.

A concise lam-rim text on how renunciation, bodhichitta and a correct view of voidness (emptiness) are the three pathways of mind essential for reaching enlightenment through either the sutra or tantra vehicles of practice.

With the pledged state of bodhichitta, we promise to train in five actions that help us never to lose our resolve.

It is necessary to develop both relative and deepest bodhichitta and work with the two of them together.

Read Tsenshap Serkong Rinpoche’s presentation of practices and methods for equalizing and exchanging our attitudes concerning self and others with love and compassion and developing a dedicated heart of bodhichitta.

With bodhichitta, we are aimed at our own, individual future state of enlightenment in order to best help others, and, with the use of our own positive qualities – love, compassion, consideration – we bring benefit and more happiness to ourselves and to others along the way.

Learn how masters from the various Tibetan Buddhist traditions assert relative and deepest bodhichittas and how to gain simultaneous cognition of the two truths in anuttarayoga tantra.

In the seven-part cause and effect meditation for generating bodhichitta, we go through a sequence of factors, such as remembering the motherly love we have received, that lead us to it.

Conventional and deepest bodhichittas as the basis for mind training.