Bodhicitta in Practice

Revision as of 14:51, 5 May 2025

}}

@@ Line 212: / Line 212: @@
 The discipline of abstaining from misdeeds includes the moral precepts a bodhisattva must follow and the major and minor transgressions, known as downfalls in the Buddhist vocabulary. These are listed below. The second and third discipline concern things a bodhisattva should do and will be covered in subsequent sections.
+<h4>Precepts for Aspiring Bodhicitta</h4>
+One must avoid the four dark dharmas and follow the four white dharmas taught in ''The Jewel Heap Sūtra'' (''Ratnakūṭasūtra'').
+Don'ts
+#Cheat the venerable ones, including teachers
+#Make someone with no regret regret a good deed
+#Defame a noble being such as a bodhisattva
+#Deceive sentient beings
+Dos
+#Tell no lies knowingly
+#Treat sentient beings with benevolence
+#Respect and praise a bodhisattva
+#Place beings on the path to perfect buddhahood
+<h4>Precepts for Engaged Bodhicitta</h4>
+One must avoid the eighteen root downfalls (transgressions or misdeeds) according to ''The Sūtra of Ākāśagarbha'' (''Ākāśagarbhasūtra''), which Śāntideva cites in ''The Compendium of Training'' and refers to in ''The Way of the Bodhisattva''.
+<h5>Five Downfalls a King Is Prone to Commit:</h5>
+# Take away property from the Three Jewels and stūpas
+# Discard the holy Dharma of any vehicle
+# Persecute someone in monastic robe, whether a monk or a transgressor
+# Commit one of the five actions of immeasurable consequences
+# Take up wrong views and nonvirtuous practices and make others do so.
+<h5>Five Downfalls a Minister Is Prone to Commit:</h5>
+# Destroy a village
+# Destroy a region
+# Destroy a town
+# Destroy a city
+# Destroy a country
+<h5>Eight Downfalls Common People Are Prone to Commit:</h5>
+# Teach emptiness to someone who is not ready and make the person turn away from Mahāyāna
+# Dissuade someone from the Mahāyāna path so that the person seeks individual liberation
+# Make someone disposed for individual liberation drop it and train on the Mahāyāna path
+# Deny that the path of disciples leads to the end of desire, etc.
+# Praise oneself and disparage others out of jealousy
+# Sell oneself with lies of seeing the truth for the sake of wealth and veneration
+# Get a monk punished and accept bribes regarding such an act
+# Obstruct meditation by diverting provisions for practitioners to those doing recitation.