Suryabhadra’s Cry | Great Middle Way

Suryabhadra’s Cry | Great Middle Way:

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With peerless kindness,

from the vast expanse of your pure awareness of wisdom and love,

you satisfied my mind with profound Dharma.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Afflicted by the brutal disease of the three poisons,

I have no resort to the sublime medicine of Dharma.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own,

tortured by intense, repugnant grasping!

Lacking eyes to see the truth of the way things really are,

and without the cane of profound method and knowledge,

I fell into the abyss of conceptualizing and analyzing.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Lacking the fine wealth of the six excellent gems,

and without the fine friends of mindfulness and vigor,

I strayed from the path of the two accumulations.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Without disenchantment and renunciation that turn the mind,

and lacking faith in the refuges of lama and yidam,

I’m bereft of the profound path of compassionate emptiness.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Without confidence in the divine nature of the truly established,

and lacking awareness of the illusory nature of empty appearances,

I’ve taken them to be identical and different.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

Abandoning compassion for all sentient beings

and not cherishing the three trainings of Dharma,

I lack the essential points of the profound path.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

All Dharma has become a subject to teach and study,

all profit solely for myself, and all the path surrendered to distraction.

Beloved Lord, regard me as your own!

If my past aspirations have been such as this,

from now on may they also be like this, but strong and steady.

By the blessings of the Primordial Lord and Our Mother the Deliverer,

may your mind blend with my mind!

On this third year of my lonesomeness,

remembering you, my true Companion,

who are the Buddha of the three times,

Suryabhadra cries out mournfully.

Place the sole of your foot on my neck, for I am your slave.

Place the palm of your hand on my head, for I am your son.

Place the length of your arm on my back, for you are my friend.

Place your brow against mine once again, dearest Lord!

—after Jonang Rinchen Sangpo’s Cry to the Compassionate One

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16th Contemplation: General Concepts of Karma | Great Middle Way

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16th Contemplation: General Concepts of Karma

Posted on December 11, 2011

Happiness comes solely from positive or virtuous acts.

Suffering comes only from negative or harmful actions.

Since virtuous and harmful actions ripen inevitably in this way,

I should adopt some actions and abandon others.

Whether my actions are virtuous or negative,

at the time of the causal act,

what I do may be minor.

But at the time of ripening of the act,

the result may increase in magnitude.

The smallest increases are a hundred or a thousand-fold.

The largest increases are immeasurable.

Therefore, giving up negative acts and adopting positive ones is essential.

If I do not take steps to repair harmful actions committed,

the imprints of those acts will not diminish in the least

until the action ripens fully as an effect.

If I have not done something,

it is impossible for the corresponding karma to arise in y continuum.

Therefore, it is vital to be careful

about what I do and what I avoid.

Letting go of Projections - Sharon Salzberg in Tricycle Daily Dharma

Tricycle Daily Dharma November 7, 2011

Let Go of Projections ''On trains, in the street, in our homes and communities, we practice paying attention—through developing mindfulness and lovingkindness and through letting go of projections—partly because a more complete attention proffers many special gifts. These gifts can penetrate through the exigencies of social roles, the seeming hollowness of chance encounters, and even through terrible hurt.'' – Sharon Salzberg, "A More Complete Attention" Read the entire article in the Tricycle Wisdom Collection

2nd Contemplation: A Precious Human Birth | Great Middle Way

2nd Contemplation: A Precious Human Birth | Great Middle Way:
By Tashi Nyima in 'The Great Middle Way'

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I am now free of the eight unfavorable states:

birth as a hell being, a hungry ghost,

an animal, a demigod, or a god[1];

grossly wrong views[2];

an unsuitable location for the practice of the Dharma;

and defective sensual and mental functions.

I am now endowed with the ten necessary conditions.

The five inner endowments:

a human birth in a central location,

proper sensual and mental functions,

uncorrupted karma[3], and faith in the Three Jewels;

And the five outer endowments:

the Buddha has appeared and taught the Dharma,

the Lord’s teachings survive,

the Dharma has countless followers,

and many support the teachings.

A human life such as I have now obtained

will be extremely difficult to achieve in the future.

I will not waste it in meaningless pursuits.

I must use it in service to the Dharma.

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[1] These are states of unimaginable suffering, constant hankering, stupidity, aggressive jealousy, and indolence.

[2] The grossly wrong views are (1) denying the law of karma, (2) despising the Three Jewels, and (3) denying rebirth.

[3] Uncorrupted karma consists of (1) not being intimately related to those who oppose the Dharma, and (2) not deriving one’s sustenance from unsuitable occupations, such as hunting and prostitution.

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