Dharma Wheel

Konchog1 wrote:By Huseng

gregkavarnos wrote:Check out the biography of Rechungpa (Milarepas prodigal son) too. It is well worth loking into this, largely ignored, brilliant student of Milarepa. Milarepa likened Gampopa to the sun and Rechungpa to the moon, when referring to his two heart sons.

'All-Pervasive Suffering ' is the suffering inherant in the fact of being born with contaminated aggregates, which by their very nature are like a magnet attracting sickness, old age and death.' (Wangchuk Dorje)

Those individuals wishing to attain liberation and omniscient buddhahood should, from the beginning, recollect the ten causes of loss:

This pure human body, so difficult to acquire, is lost in wrongdoing.
This pure human body with its freedom and resources, so difficult to possess, is lost in ordinary physical death without Dharma.
This brief human life in the age of decadence is lost and used up in meaningless activities.
This mind whose nature is the dharmakaya, beyond elaboration, is lost and mired in the swamp of samsaric confusion.
The holy guru who leads one on the path is lost if one is separate from him at any time until one attains awakening.
Vows and samaya, the ship of liberation, are lost in destruction by kleshas, carelessness, and adverse conditions.
The experience and realization that one has acquired through the intercession of one's guru are lost in the forest of mental formations.
The profound instructions of siddhas are lost by being sold to the unworthy.
Sentient beings, one's kind parents, are lost when one abandons them through anger.
One's youthful three gates are lost in ordinary indifference.

Those are the ten causes of loss.

These are the ten necessary things:

It is necessary to be independent so that one is not misled by advice.
It is necessary to practice with faith and diligence in accordance with the instructions of the holy guru.
It is necessary to select instructions of one's guru unmistakenly, through understanding the difference between instructions that are appropriate and inappropriate.
It is necessary to enact the intentions of the holy guru with knowledge, faith, and diligence.
It is necessary that through one's possession of mindfulness, attentiveness, and carefulness, one's three gates be unobscured by defects.
It is necessary that one be stable and independent in one's practice, through possessing courage and the armor of diligence.
It is necessary that, by being without attachment and craving, one avoid giving one's nose-rope to others.
It is necessary to be diligent in the continual gathering of the two accumulations, by complementing one's practice with preparation, execution, and conclusion.
It is necessary that one turn one's mind to benefiting beings, both directly and indirectly, with loving-kindness and compassion.
It is necessary that through knowledge, understanding, and realization, one not mistake all things to be substantial and inherently endowed with characteristics.

Those are the ten necessary things.