MEDITATIONS ON THE TEN STAGES PATH

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEe5qH6zRmXkEnr1DY8FJp5IRvIBpueFe2Oxkx__zYwXfFMz1nFlxv0g_vrXH-nirOhLg24KBYxSa8Jlbl4EtO08RQV6KRmXUEV19e7gegaUjVCeiBQjHYt8UUtqeIU72rwNiZ_ATatc/s1600/DSC_0084-EFFECTS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiEe5qH6zRmXkEnr1DY8FJp5IRvIBpueFe2Oxkx__zYwXfFMz1nFlxv0g_vrXH-nirOhLg24KBYxSa8Jlbl4EtO08RQV6KRmXUEV19e7gegaUjVCeiBQjHYt8UUtqeIU72rwNiZ_ATatc/s320/DSC_0084-EFFECTS.jpg" width="180" /></a></div> <h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: novecento_sans_medium, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meditations ON THE TEN STAGES PATH</span></h4> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The path begins with strong reliance<br /> On my kind Teacher, source of all good;<br /> O Bless me with this understanding<br /> To follow him with great devotion.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> This human life with all its freedoms,<br /> Extremely rare, with so much meaning;<br /> O Bless me with this understanding<br /> All day and night to seize its essence.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> My body, like a water bubble,<br /> Decays and dies so very quickly;<br /> After death come results of karma,<br /> Just like the shadow of a body.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> With this firm knowledge and remembrance<br /> Bless me to be extremely cautious,<br /> Always avoiding harmful actions<br /> And gathering abundant virtue.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Samsara’s pleasures are deceptive,<br /> Give no contentment, only torment;<br /> So please bless me to strive sincerely<br /> To gain the bliss of perfect freedom.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> O Bless me so that from this pure thought<br /> Come mindfulness and greatest caution,<br /> To keep as my essential practice<br /> The doctrine’s root, the Pratimoksha.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Just like myself all my kind mothers<br /> Are drowning in samsara’s ocean;<br /> O So that I may soon release them,<br /> Bless me to train in bodhichitta.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> But I cannot become a Buddha<br /> By this alone without three ethics;<br /> So bless me with the strength to practise<br /> The Bodhisattva’s ordination.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> By pacifying my distractions<br /> And analyzing perfect meanings,<br /> Bless me to quickly gain the union<br /> Of special insight and quiescence.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> When I become a pure container<br /> Through common paths, bless me to enter<br /> The essence practice of good fortune,<br /> The supreme vehicle, Vajrayana.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The two attainments both depend on<br /> My sacred vows and my commitments;<br /> Bless me to understand this clearly<br /> And keep them at the cost of my life.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> By constant practice in four sessions,<br /> The way explained by holy Teachers,<br /> O Bless me to gain both the stages,<br /> Which are the essence of the Tantras.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> May those who guide me on the good path,<br /> And my companions all have long lives;<br /> Bless me to pacify completely<br /> All obstacles, outer and inner.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #555555; font-family: myriad-pro, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"> May I always find perfect Teachers,<br /> And take delight in holy Dharma,<br /> Accomplish all grounds and paths swiftly,<br /> And gain the state of Vajradhara.</div>

MEDITATIONS ON THE TEN STAGES PATH

Meditations ON THE TEN STAGES PATH The path begins with strong reliance On my kind Teacher, source of all good; O Bless me with thi...

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