Tsongkhapa day 2018

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Nicholas Weeks
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Tsongkhapa day 2018

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This 2 December day is Tsongkhapa day. A little from his ocean of bodhicitta teachings - The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path:
Intelligent persons should enter the Mahayana from the beginning.
As Aryasura's Compendium of the Perfections (Paramita-samasa) says:

Once you have abandoned forever the two lower vehicles,
Which possess no power to provide the welfare of the world,
Enter the vehicle which the Conqueror Sakyamuni compassionately
taught— This consists only of helping others. [282]

And also:

When people see that joy and unhappiness are like a dream
And that beings degenerate due to the faults of delusion,
Why would they strive for their own welfare,
Forsaking delight in the excellent deeds of altruism?

When you see that beings have fallen, just as you have, into the
ocean of existence and are stumbling, unable to walk in a safe direction,
because the eye of wisdom—which distinguishes what to
adopt and what to discard—for them is closed, is it not better to
care for others and to strive for their welfare, you who are in the
Conqueror's lineage? That same text says:

Why wouldn't anyone who is in the Conqueror's lineage and
Who works for the welfare of the world
Have compassion for those stumbling with their eyes of wisdom closed
And joyously persevere so as to clear away such confusion?
May all seek, find & follow the Path of Buddhas.
kausalya
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Re: Tsongkhapa day 2018

Post by kausalya »

:bow:
"For as long as space remains,
For as long as sentient beings remain,
Until then may I too remain
To dispel the miseries of the world."
(Shantideva)
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