Accumulating Merit by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso Rinpoche.

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Accumulating Merit by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso Rinpoche.

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Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso Rinpoche

Accumulating Merit - bSod-nams-bsags-pa


Translated by Ari Goldfield


Before listening to Lord Buddha’s teachings, I want to ask you to give rise to supreme bodhicitta. Supreme bodhicitta is developed and increased by first thinking of one’s father and mother in this life and then extending the gratitude and love one feels for them to all sentient beings, even to one’s enemies. We want to attain the state of complete, perfect, and precious enlightenment for their sake. We know that in order to be able to benefit all sentient beings, we need to listen to, reflect, and meditate upon the genuine Dharma teachings with all the enthusiasm we can muster in our hearts. Please give rise to supreme bodhicitta when you listen attentively.

We think of our parents first because our opportunity to practice the Dharma in this lifetime is due to the immense kindness they have shown us. We think of our enemies, too, because they were the ones who gave us the exceptional possibility to practice patience when they were unkind and hurt us. Furthermore, there is not a single enemy who was not our caring father or mother at one time in the past, so that is why we remember them with gratitude. We think of the nature of the minds of the people we are associated with - our friends, our enemies, and all sentient beings. We know that the nature of the mind of every single sentient being is clear light, the enlightened heart that is the Buddha nature. Since we have the Buddha nature, we can be sure that we will benefit others immensely. Just as the nature of our own mind is clear light, the nature of our parent’s mind is also clear light. Likewise, the nature of mind of all our friends and enemies is clear light. The nature of mind of every single sentient being is clear light.

“Realizing the true nature of reality, Mahamudra,
depends upon accumulating a vast amount of merit.” - Khenpo

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Interesting thing, this recitation-meditation.
1 Myriad dharmas are only mind.
Mind is unobtainable.
What is there to seek?

2 If the Buddha-Nature is seen,
there will be no seeing of a nature in any thing.

3 Neither cultivation nor seated meditation —
this is the pure Chan of Tathagata.

4 With sudden enlightenment to Tathagata Chan,
the six paramitas and myriad means
are complete within that essence.


1 Huangbo, T2012Ap381c1 2 Nirvana Sutra, T374p521b3; tr. Yamamoto 3 Mazu, X1321p3b23; tr. J. Jia 4 Yongjia, T2014p395c14; tr. from "The Sword of Wisdom"
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It is Astus. :smile:


Neither bondage nor liberation have ever been perceived with regard to it. However, like bondage and liberation in dreams, bondage and liberation are merely mind's imputations.” Rinpoche.



The grasping to the images of dream/movie. We need skilfull ideas to recognize ideation.
It is like we write the Dharma words on water surface.
When we grasp to words in the water, then Dharma remains samsara's interesting game.

The Vietnamese teacher said: "For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
The Chinese teacher said: "Surrender!"

The water doesn't grasp anything. Illusion by a split must be in order grasping/modelation is possible.

Apologize my needless rambling in between.........oh yes; the importance of practice.
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Very interesting and inspiring, thanks Muni.
Dualism is the real root of our suffering and all of our conflicts.

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mindyourmind wrote:Very interesting and inspiring, thanks Muni.
For me as well. Very happy it inspires you as well.

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