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|quote-text=In terms of the manifest realizations of the three higher trainings, ethical discipline is the dam which acts as an antidote to hold back the manifest causes of negative actions, that is to say non-virtue. The mind acting as an antidote (concentration), which is empowered with that (ethical discipline), suppresses nonvirtue such that it cannot intrude. Wisdom destroys the seeds of the nonvirtue, which are completely uprooted such that they can never arise again. These three trainings are explained in the three pitakas. The meaning of this is summed up in ''The Sūtra of Individual Liberation'': | |quote-text=In terms of the manifest realizations of the three higher trainings, ethical discipline is the dam which acts as an antidote to hold back the manifest causes of negative actions, that is to say non-virtue. The mind acting as an antidote (concentration), which is empowered with that (ethical discipline), suppresses nonvirtue such that it cannot intrude. Wisdom destroys the seeds of the nonvirtue, which are completely uprooted such that they can never arise again. These three trainings are explained in the three pitakas. The meaning of this is summed up in ''The Sūtra of Individual Liberation'': | ||
Commit not a single unwholesome action, | :Commit not a single unwholesome action,<br>Cultivate a wealth of virtue,<br>Tame completely your own mind—<br>This is the teaching of the Buddha.<ref>Pema Karpo, ''Lamp for the Middle Way'', 19 (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> | ||
Cultivate a wealth of virtue, | |||
Tame completely your own mind— | |||
This is the teaching of the Buddha.<ref>Pema Karpo, ''Lamp for the Middle Way'', 19 (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> | |||
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<h5>4. The Force of Turning Away from Repeating the Fault, or The Force of Restraint</h5> | <h5>4. The Force of Turning Away from Repeating the Fault, or The Force of Restraint</h5> | ||
