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CONTENTS Foreword 1 Summary 5 Thirty Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas 9
FOREWORD His Eminence Gyalwa Dokhampa Jigme Pema Nyinjadh “The Buddha Dharma needs to be understood as a living philosophy, a philosophy that must be put into practice.” This is a constant reminder from my enlightened master, the Gyalwang Drukpa. Indeed, without experiential knowledge, it is almost impossible to grasp the truth; and without proper guidance and experiential understanding, it is hopeless to progress on a spiritual path. Therefore, compassion, suffering and enlightenment would become only an idle talk, because we would not be able to understand the meaning of compassion, the essence of suffering and the need for enlightenment. As Buddhist practitioners, we do not believe in an Almighty Creator who controls our life or a saviour who makes judgement based on our actions, virtues and vices. Lord Buddha, our universal teacher, encourages us to find the truth within ourselves by understanding our own innate nature. Although the Buddha is not a creator nor a saviour, his teachings offer a spiritual road map to show us the way to transform our inner self, so that we would be both a guiding light and a refuge. As a result, the path to attaining enlightenment would become clearer and therefore with less hindrances. A path is a method and a tool leading us from one place to another. In this case, a spiritual path based on the Buddha Dharma leads us out of ignorance to the absence of ignorance. When we speak of the practice of the Buddha Dharma, we are referring to following the authentic Dharma. We use the word “holy” or “venerable” because the supreme wisdom of the Dharma can release us from fear and suffering, and lead us to the understanding that our sufferings are actually based on illusions. The challenge for you is to discover your own world and then with all your 1
Page 1 and 2: ༄༅། །རྒྱལ་སྲ
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Page 7 and 8: Foreword Ngulchu Thogme Zangpo is u
Page 9 and 10: A Commentary on the “Thirty-Seven
Page 11 and 12: A Commentary on the “Thirty-Seven
Page 13 and 14: PROMISE ཕན་བདེའི་
Page 15 and 16: Once, someone asked me, “What is
Page 17 and 18: down. We have to encourage ourselve
Page 19 and 20: On the Bodhisattva path, this not o
Page 21 and 22: ༢༽ (2) གཉེན་གི་
Page 23 and 24: must first go through the inner dis
Page 25 and 26: that we have to change right away.
Page 27 and 28: where there are lots of activities.
Page 29 and 30: This life should be released by the
Page 31 and 32: Not only non-attachment, but the ne
Page 33 and 34: As practitioners and followers of t
Page 35 and 36: We need to understand suffering. Wh
Page 37 and 38: form of the person or who he is. Is
Page 39 and 40: To free ourselves from karmic influ
Page 41 and 42: the course of our lives last only a
Page 43 and 44: In fact, if we examine carefully, w
Page 45 and 46: One needs to develop the mind of en
Page 47 and 48: ༡༢༽ (12) སུ་དག་
Page 49 and 50: “If I am a great Bodhisattva and
Page 51 and 52: kind and as there was still an inte
Page 53 and 54: accumulations. That is exhibiting t
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person is a great master. By making
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༡༧༽ (17) རང་དང་
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This is the way of the Bodhisattva
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༢༠༽ (20) རང་གི་
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Desire is equally bad. Though not o
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Whatever appears to be truly existe
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Your wisdom will know this spontane
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༢༥༽ བྱང་ཆུབ་
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to go, not only on the spiritual pa
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not have any qualification.” The
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The above stanza talks about dilige
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see because of ignorance and defile
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Because the root of samsara simply
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༣༢༽ (32) ཉོན་མོ
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You will never be able to have a pe
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Furthermore, awareness is essential
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མདོ་རྒྱུད་བ
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Only a few people, lucky enough to
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