Becoming Enlightened

by Dalai Lama XIV

Shakyamuni

Vasubandhu’s Treasury of Manifest Knowledge,

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Tsongkhapa,

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I am spending my life as a full-fledged follower of Buddha. May I remove the three poisons of lust, hatred, and ignorance! Destructive emotions, of course, will arise, but I will not voluntarily rush into them. Today I will do whatever I can to read texts, reflect on their meaning, and work at developing wisdom. I will also do whatever I can to generate the altruistic intention to become enlightened and implement compassion in my behavior. May whatever obstructs the generation of these practices be pacified!

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Then, through studying the training in concentrative meditation you will learn how to avoid having your mind be too loose or too tight, so you will be able to set your mind and stay on a topic without being distracted. Then, through studying the training in wisdom you will become able to penetrate the meaning of selflessness. By

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generate a sense of discomfort, “My mind has become like this!” Then you will work to clear away those faults and achieve favorable qualities.

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To the Buddha, the doctrine, and the supreme of communities I go for refuge until enlightenment. Through the merit of the giving and so forth that I perform May I achieve Buddhahood in order to help transmigrating beings.

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Though I have not yet achieved control over how I will be reborn, if I continue these practices I will likely die with

Important

Only when you view as faulty the conception of self and the destructive emotions induced by this wrong idea are you inside the door of actual Buddhist practice; this is why the four noble truths are so central.

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forth, calling them “conventional truths”; then it speaks of the reality beyond these appearances, which is called “ultimate truth.” In one object, such as your body, its appearance can be found by conventional valid cognition, and its mode of being can be found by final analysis.

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