Lam-rim 7: Causes & Difficulty of Obtaining a Precious Human Rebirth

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We’ve been going through the meditations on the precious human rebirth. We covered the eight situations of no leisure that prevent Dharma practice in order to recognize that we have a short respite them and that we could easily get into these terrible situations again. We also covered the ten enriching situations that enable Dharma practice and recognized that we have them. 

Last time we went over the points concerning how the precious human life is important from three points of view: 

  • We can attain the temporary, or provisional, goal, namely, to have a higher rebirth, specifically a precious human rebirth. It is on the basis of the precious human rebirth that we are able to follow pure ethics, which is the main cause for a precious human rebirth.
  • We can attain the ultimate goals, liberation and enlightenment.
  • Each moment, we can come closer to achieving these goals. We can do prostration, meditation, mantra recitation, and other sorts of Dharma practices.

The last point covered in this topic is the difficulty of obtaining such a life. This is considered from the point of view of its causes, from the point of view of analogies, and from the point of view of the nature of the difficulty, which refers to the number of beings.

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