Awakening the Mind of Enlightenment

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Awakening the Mind of Enlightenment: Meditations on the Buddhist Path

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Geshe Wangchen, a Tibetan lama with many year's experience of teaching Buddhist theory and practice to Westerners, explains how to meditate: how to prepare for a meditation session, what to do during it, and how to conclude.

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Wangchen, Geshe Namgyal. Awakening the Mind of Enlightenment: Meditations on the Buddhist Path. Wisdom Basic Book Orange Series. London: Wisdom Publications, 1987.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements 7
• Introduction 9

• • Part One: Basic Requirements For The Practice Of Meditation
• 1. The Meaning of the Gradual Path to Enlightenment 21
• 2. The Four Significant Qualities of the Gradual Path 29
• 3. Our Motivation for Practicing Meditation 31
• 4. The Levels of the Path 39
• 5. Preparing Ourselves for the Actual Meditation: The Six Preliminary Practices 45

• • Part Two: Meditations On The Initial Level Of Inner Development
• 6. The Precious Human Rebirth 73
• 7. Awareness of Impermanence 81
• 8. Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels 87

• • Part Three: Meditation On The Medium Level Of Inner Development
• 9. The Suffering Nature of Cyclic Existence 101

• • Part Four: Meditation On The High Level Of Inner Development
• 10. Encouraging Ourselves to Develop Bodhicitta, the Mind of Enlightenment 117
• 11. How to Develop Bodhicitta 125

• • Part Five: The Six Perfections
• 12. Encouraging Ourselves to Practice the Bodhisattva Path 155
• 13. Introducing the Six Perfections 159
• 14. Meditations on the First Four Perfections 179
• 15. The Importance of Single-Pointed Mind, the Fifth Perfection 189
• 16. How to Develop Single-Pointed Mind 193
• 17. The Wisdom of Emptiness, the Sixth Perfection 217
• 18. Meditation on Emptiness 225

• • Appendix: Prayers in Tibetan Phonetics and English 249
  • Glossary 257

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Bodhicitta - The altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspects: compassion aimed at sentient beings and their problems and the wisdom of enlightenment as the solution. Skt बोधिचित्त  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས།  Ch 菩提心  

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Bodhisattva - A person who seeks enlightenment for the sake of others. In Mahāyāna Buddhism, a bodhisattva is a compassionate being who is training on the path to buddhahood and aspires to eliminate the suffering of all beings and take all sentient beings to the state of enlightenment. The Mahāyāna sūtras including those on buddha-nature generally have bodhisattvas as the main audience or interlocutors for the Buddha's discourses. Skt बोधिसत्त्व  Tib བྱང་ཆུབ་སེམས་དཔའ།  Ch 菩薩  

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