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Padma Karpo explains these same divisions in a slightly different way: (1) advice for undertaking perseverance in the practices to be accomplished, (2) advice on exerting oneself in the conducive side of virtue, now that one is endowed with the support, and (3) advice on overcoming the nonconducive side, the enemy of the afflictions. <ref>Pema Karpo, ''A Lamp for the Middle Way: A Commentary on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara, Spyod 'jug gi 'bru 'grel dbu ma'i lam gyi sgron ma'' (Kathmandu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihara, 2017), 15 (e-book), https://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/library/?post_types=book,book_author&search-terms=A+Lamp+for+the+Middle+Way:+A+Commentary+on+the+Bodhisattvacharyavatara&subjects=any&view=list/</ref> | Padma Karpo explains these same divisions in a slightly different way: (1) advice for undertaking perseverance in the practices to be accomplished, (2) advice on exerting oneself in the conducive side of virtue, now that one is endowed with the support, and (3) advice on overcoming the nonconducive side, the enemy of the afflictions. <ref>Pema Karpo, ''A Lamp for the Middle Way: A Commentary on the Bodhisattvacharyavatara, Spyod 'jug gi 'bru 'grel dbu ma'i lam gyi sgron ma'' (Kathmandu: Shree Gautam Buddha Vihara, 2017), 15 (e-book), https://dharmacloud.tsadra.org/library/?post_types=book,book_author&search-terms=A+Lamp+for+the+Middle+Way:+A+Commentary+on+the+Bodhisattvacharyavatara&subjects=any&view=list/</ref> | ||
<h4>Conscientiousness in Regard to What Is to Be Accomplished</h4> | |||
The discipline mentioned above has two main types—general discipline and the discipline associated with the taking of vows or commitments. With discipline related to vows, we are either committed to engaging in certain paths of positive practice, or we make vows to restrain from ethically unsound actions. | |||
This chapter speaks mostly of training our minds in mental factors such as conscientiousness, which help us maintain more general forms of discipline. However, in the very first verse of this chapter Śāntideva indicates that these practices are also to be used in relation to specific forms of discipline related to the taking of vows. Here, that specifically means the vows which are associated with the ceremony of taking bodhicitta. | |||
In his commentary ''The Brightly Shining Sun'', Patrul Rinpoche [LINK to text pdf p. 21] mentions three principle things to avoid which run contrary to aspirational bodhicitta: mentally forsaking sentient beings; developing the attitude of a ''śrāvaka'' [LINK to glossary] or ''pratyekabuddha'' [LINK to glossary]; and the four impure practices. Patrul relates the four impure practices in the following verse: | |||
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Criticizing great beings, and cheating ordinary folk— | |||
Renounce these four impure practices and adopt their opposites, | |||
Which are the four pure dharmas.<ref>Pearcy, ''Brightly Shining Sun'', https://www.lotsawahouse.org/tibetan-masters/patrul-rinpoche/bodhicharyavatara-brightly-shining-sun.</ref> | |||
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