Bodhichitta

Corresponding to the two truths as defined in the Mahayana tenets, there are two bodhichitta aims: conventional and deepest.

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

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.

A look at the major points along the path necessary to develop a bodhichitta motivation to help others and to reach enlightenment in order to benefit them in the best way possible.

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

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.

“Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior” (Skt. Bodhisattvacharyavatara) has ten chapters dedicated to the development of bodhichitta through the six far-reaching attitudes (perfections) – generosity, ethical self-discipline, patience, perseverance, concentration and discriminating...

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.

In order to know how to develop bodhichitta and meditate on it, we need to know what it is focused on and how it actually engages with that object.

The development of bodhichitta progresses through various stages leading to the five types of trainings that prevent our development of bodhichitta from weakening in this life or in future lives.