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Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 7, Stanzas 27-30

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Ringu Tulku Rinpoche
Teachings on Bodhicharyavatara
Chapter 7: Diligence
Session 15
Stanzas 27-30


In these verses Rinpoche begins to explain why it is that a Bodhisattva doesn’t experience suffering in the same way as ordinary people do. The verses tell us that wisdom is accumulated through seeing the harm caused by negative actions, abandoning the kleshas and practising Dharma. This brings peace, joy and the capacity to remain in samsara without suffering.

Working to benefit others is a training, and when we stop resisting and turn our minds to that, we will find it comes naturally to us––therefore it is not a hardship.

This in itself brings merit and exhausts negative karma, so why not?


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3 thoughts on “Bodhicharyavatara Chapter 7, Stanzas 27-30”

  1. mathiot on September 18, 2020 at 22:15 said:

    Dear Ringu Tulku Rinpoche,

    I’m reading the tibetan book of living and dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.Is there a link between Rigpa and Bodhichitta?

    Sincerely yours,

    Josée Mathiot

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  2. marlou108 on September 19, 2020 at 10:20 said:

    Thank you dear Rinpoche, most encouraging teaching, Buddha shows: there’s always a way…for everyone. That motivates, gives kind of hope. Thank you for sharing great wisdom, insight and compassion, warm greetings, ma-lou

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  3. conrad on October 3, 2020 at 19:14 said:

    Dear Rinpoche
    In your commentary on stanza 28 you referenced the commitment of some Bodhisattvas to postpone achieving full Buddhahood, as long as there are still sentient beings suffering samsara.

    They aspire to remain to liberate beings.
    Albeit, you then mention that actually Avalokiteshvara and Tara are actually Buddhas “disguised as Bodhisattvas”.
    (Perhaps for tax reasons? 😀)

    My question is regarding this aspiration.

    Are some Bodhisattvas therefore interdependently and practically, better placed, to help other beings, than a Buddha?

    Or is this aspiration merely a selfless representation of Bodhisattvas’ altruistic dedication for others, and in reality, such a realised being wouldn’t delay progressing onto full Buddhahood to be of even greater relative benefit to other beings, than what is interdependently possible as a Bodhisattva?

    Many thanks
    (and sorry about the tenth bhūmi taxation status joke 😀)
    Conrad

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