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Outline of Lamrim Topics
- I: The mode of Relying on a Spiritual Master, the foundation of the path.
- Reliance through thought.
- Cultivating faith, the root factor.
- Cultivating respect through recollecting kindness.
- Reliance through action.
- II: The stages of training based on such a reliance.
- Persuading to Take the Essence of a Fully Endowed Human Existence.
- Reflecting on the great value of leisure and fortune.
- Reflecting on its rarity.
- The manner in which to actually take the essence.
- Training the mind in the stages of path common to the practitioners of initial capacity.
- Meditating on Death Awareness.
- Reflecting on the Sufferings of Lower Realms.
- Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels.
- Generating conviction in the Karmic Laws.
- Training the mind in the stages of path common to those of middle capacity.
- Generating the aspiration to Achieve Liberation from Cyclic Existence..
- Reflecting on the suffering of cyclic existence in general.
- Reflecting on the specific sufferings of individual realms.
- Presentation of the nature of the paths leading to liberation.
- Training the mind in the stages of path common to those of great capacity.
- The mode of Cultivating Bodhichitta (mind of enlightenment).
- The actual generation of the mind.
- Generating bodhichitta through the instruction of seven-point cause and effect.
- Meditation on equanimity.
- The seven points.
- Recognition that all beings as having been one's mother.
- Recollection of their kindness.
- Repaying the kindness.
- Loving kindness.
- Great compassion.
- Superior attitude.
- Bodhichitta.
- Generating bodhichitta through the instruction on equality and exchange of oneself with others.
- Reinforcing the generated altruistic mind through ceremony.
- The way in which the vows are received.
- How to protect the vows from degeneration.
- The mode of engaging in the deeds following the generation of the altruistic mind.
- Training in the bodhisattva deeds in general.
- Generosity.
- Morality.
- Patience.
- Joyous effort.
- Concentration.
- Wisdom.
- The four ripening factors.
- Training in the last two perfections in particular.
- Training in calm abiding, the essence of concentration.
- Training in Special Insight, the Essence of Wisdom (wisdom realizing emptiness)..
- On the selflessness of persons.
- On the selflessness of phenomena.
- On non-inherent existence of compounded phenomena.
- On non-inherent existence of uncompounded phenomena.
Source: HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss (Snow Lion)
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