Object Flashcards

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  1. Meditation on the preciousness of our human life
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Our determination to practice Dharma purely and sincerely

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  1. Meditation on death
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Our thought ‘I may die today. I may die today.’

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  1. Meditation on the dangers of lower rebirth
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Our feeling of fear of taking rebirth in the lower realms as an animal, a hungry ghost or a hell being

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  1. Meditation on going for refuge
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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

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  1. Meditation on karma
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Our determination to abandon and to purify our non-virtuous actions, and to accumulate virtuous actions or merit.

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  1. Meditation on renunciation
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Our determination to liberate ourself permanently from the sufferings of our countless future lives.

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  1. Meditation on our determination to recognize, reduce and abandon our self-grasping ignorance, the root of samsaric rebirth
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Our determination to abandon our self-grasping ignorance.

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  1. Meditation on our determination to practice the three higher trainings
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Our determination to practice the three higher trainings.

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  1. Meditation on our determination to attain the ultimate truth of cessation
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Our determination to attain permanent liberation from all the sufferings of this life and our countless future lives, known as nirvana.

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  1. Meditation on cherishing all living beings
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Our belief that the happiness and freedom of all other living beings are more important than our own

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  1. Meditation on universal compassion
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Our determination to permanently liberate all living beings from suffering

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  1. Meditation on bodhichitta
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Our determination to attain enlightenment to benefit each and every living being every day

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  1. Meditation on our determination and promise to practice the six perfections
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Our determination and promise to sincerely practice the six perfections

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  1. Training in meditation on emptiness
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The emptiness of all phenomena, the mere absence of all phenomena we normally see or perceive.

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  1. Meditation on relying on a spiritual guide
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Our deep faith in our Spiritual Guide

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