Lamrim means “Stages of the Path” in Tibetan. In 1042 King Jangchub invited the Buddhist teacher Atisha to Tibet. Asked to give a concise teaching of the Buddhist path for the Tibetan people, Atisha created the Lamrim, organizing the essential Buddhist teachings in the order they should be realized. These twenty-one stages are the Lamrim, or the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. These teachings form the basis of what is known as the Kadampa tradition and nearly all subsequent Mayahana Tibetan teachings.
I’ll be attempting to write a meditative prayer for each stage from an interspiritual perspective and to write a short commentary on that stage and how the teaching can be used from an interspiritual perspective.
The 21 Stages of the Path Are:
1. Relying upon a Spiritual Guide
2. Our precious human life
3. Death and impermanence
4. The danger of lower rebirth
5. Refuge practice
6. Actions and their effects
7. Developing renunciation for samsara
8. Developing equanimity
9. Recognizing that all living beings are our mothers
10. Remembering the kindness of living beings
11. Equalizing self and others
12. The disadvantages of self-cherishing
13. The advantages of cherishing others
14. Exchanging self with others
15. Great compassion
16. Taking
17. Wishing love
18. Giving
19. Bodhichitta
20. Tranquil abiding
21. Superior seeing
I'm guessing that this project will take most of the year if not more. Something to work in between writing a new script and creating the notes for a new novel.
I need a nap.
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