HtUtM - Meditations (3)

Question 1

What are the 5 meditations of a person of great scope?

Answer 1

(Great scope: Overcoming attachment to solitary peace)

1. Cherishing all living beings
2. Universal compassion
3. The supreme good heart, bodhichitta
4. Our determination to sincerely practice the 6 perfections
5. Training in yogic direct perceivers

Question 2

Med on cherishing all living beings: Purpose?

Answer 2

To develop universal compassion… for all living beings.

…the source of all our future happiness and good fortune

Question 3

Med on the ultimate truth of cessation: Object?

Answer 3

The belief that the happiness and freedom of all other living beings are more important than our own.

Question 4

Med on universal compassion: Purpose?

Answer 4

To develop bodhichitta: wanting to become an enlightened being to liberate all living beings.

…Our compassion for all living beings makes our mind and our actions more and more pure… eventually enlightened

Question 5

Med on universal compassion: Object?

Answer 5

Our determination to liberate all living beings from suffering permanently.

Actual med: “I cannot bear the suffering of these countless mother beings…”

Question 6

Med on the supreme good heart, bodhichitta: Purpose?

Answer 6

To engage in the Bodhisattva’s path - the actual path to enlightenment

…bodhichitta is an inner vehicle with 6 wheels (the 6 perfections)

Question 7

Med on the supreme good heart, bodhichitta: Object?

Answer 7

Our determination to attain enlightenment to benefit each and every living being every day

Question 8

Our determination to sincerely practice the 6 perfections: Purpose?

Answer 8

To reach directly the state of enlightenment

…The 6 perfections are the actual path to enlightenment
…Through following this path with the vehicle of bodhichitta we will definitely reach enlightenment

Question 9

Our determination to sincerely practice the 6 perfections: What are the 6 perfections?

Answer 9

Giving

Moral discipline (abandon inappropriate actions including those that cause others suffering)

Patience (do not become angry or discouraged)

Effort (to accumulate merit and wisdom)

Concentration (emphasis on tranquil abiding observing emptiness)

Wisdom (of superior seeing by meditating on the emptiness of all phenomena with bodhichitta motivation)

Question 10

Our determination to sincerely practice the 6 perfections: Object?

Answer 10

Our determination and promise to sincerely practice the 6 perfections

Question 11

Training in yogic direct perceivers: Purpose?

Answer 11

To advance ourself from the state of an ordinary being to that of a great Yogi, a Superior Bodhisattva.

…our realization of a yogic direct perceiver destroys the power of the delusions

Question 12

Training in yogic direct perceivers: Object?

Answer 12

The emptiness of all phenomena, the mere absence of all phenomena that we normally see or perceive.