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.

Starting from equanimity and acknowledging and appreciating motherly love, we develop love and compassion for everyone and the bodhichitta aim to become Buddhas to be of best help to them all.

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.

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

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.

Dudjom Rinpoche’s commentary to the third chapter of Longchenpa’s “Precious Garland for the Four Themes of (Gampopa),” entitled “Having the Pathway Minds Eliminate Confusion.”

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.

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.

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