Object Flashcards
- Meditation on the preciousness of our human life
Our determination to practice Dharma purely and sincerely
- Meditation on death
Our thought ‘I may die today. I may die today.’
- Meditation on the dangers of lower rebirth
Our feeling of fear of taking rebirth in the lower realms as an animal, a hungry ghost or a hell being
- Meditation on going for refuge
Our determination and promise to apply effort to accomplish the following three things:
- Receiving Buddha’s blessings
- Putting Dharma into practice
- Receiving help from Sangha, the pure spiritual practitioners including our Spiritual Teachers
- Meditation on karma
Our determination to abandon and to purify our non-virtuous actions, and to accumulate virtuous actions or merit.
- Meditation on renunciation
Our determination to liberate ourself permanently from the sufferings of our countless future lives.
- Meditation on our determination to recognize, reduce and abandon our self-grasping ignorance, the root of samsaric rebirth
Our determination to abandon our self-grasping ignorance.
- Meditation on our determination to practice the three higher trainings
Our determination to practice the three higher trainings.
- Meditation on our determination to attain the ultimate truth of cessation
Our determination to attain permanent liberation from all the sufferings of this life and our countless future lives, known as nirvana.
- Meditation on cherishing all living beings
Our belief that the happiness and freedom of all other living beings are more important than our own
- Meditation on universal compassion
Our determination to permanently liberate all living beings from suffering
- Meditation on bodhichitta
Our determination to attain enlightenment to benefit each and every living being every day
- Meditation on our determination and promise to practice the six perfections
Our determination and promise to sincerely practice the six perfections
- Training in meditation on emptiness
The emptiness of all phenomena, the mere absence of all phenomena we normally see or perceive.
- Meditation on relying on a spiritual guide
Our deep faith in our Spiritual Guide