The Mirror of Dharma

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Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. The Mirror of Dharma

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The Mirror of Dharma

Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche is a fully accomplished meditation master and internationally renowned teacher of Buddhism who has pioneered the introduction of modern Buddhism into contemporary society. He is the author of 23 highly acclaimed books that perfectly transmit the ancient wisdom of Buddhism to our modern world. He has also founded over 1200 Kadampa Buddhist centres and groups throughout the world.

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With this cherishing love for all living beings we engage in the following practice. In the first stage we contemplate and deeply think how countless mother living beings are experiencing the cycle of the sufferings of birth, sickness, ageing and death, continually in life after life without end. We should remember the detailed explanation in the book Modern Buddhism. Then we generate a strong wish to liberate all of them permanently from this suffering. This wish is compassion for all living beings. To fulfil this wish we make the strong determination to attain enlightenment. This determination is the compassionate mind of bodhichitta. We then meditate on this determination continually until we maintain our determination day and night without ever forgetting it.

In the second stage we contemplate how all mother living beings are tightly bound by the chains of karma – the non-virtuous actions they have performed out of attachment, anger or ignorance, and that cause them never to be free from suffering and problems. We generate a sincere wish to release all of them from these chains permanently, which is compassion. To fulfil this wish we make the strong determination to attain enlightenment. This determination is bodhichitta. We then meditate on this determination continually until we maintain our determination day and night without ever forgetting it.

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