The ten things to be emphasized: 1. At the very begining the practitioner should emphasize on hearing and analysis of Dharma. 2. The practice of meditation done with experience should be emphasized to more arisen practice. 3. Until you attain stability of your mind, emphasize on living in solitude. 4. If excitement predominates(25) mind, emphasis should be given to control it. 5. If torpor and depression predominate, emphasis should be given to a little nap of mind in order to be active again. 6. Until the mind is stable, emphasis should be given to contemplation. 7. Through your stabilized in even placement, emphasize on attaining Buddhahood. 8. If unconducive conditions are many, emphasize on practicing three folds of patience.(26) 9. If desire and attachment(27) grow in stature, emphasize on forceful renunciation. 10. If love and compassion weaken, emphasize on the cultivation of Bodhicitta. 25). The deconcentrated mind which always moves on the outer objects is called deconcentration. The deconcentrated or laughing mind is one of the twenty close defilements and it is the mind which is affected by desire and hatred. 26). An ethical man is impatient; he is roused to anger and loses in a moment whatever merit he has acquired from previous liberal behaviour. Therefore, it is said in Bodhisattvapitaka: Anger, indeed, destroys the basis of the A Precious Garland of the Supreme Path 19 Good and wholesome that has been Accumulated through hundred thousand aeons. In Bodhicaryāvatāra it is said: All the liberality and Buddha worship That has been practiced and accumulated As merit through thousands of ages Is destroyed in a single burst of rage. The essence of patience is to be prepared for every event. In the Bodhisattvabhūmi it is said: To be ready for everything without bothering about material considerations and filled with pure compassion is the essence of Bodhisattva’s patience. I. Patience means to be ready to cope with a harmful person. At the present it is a harmful person because in former lives such a man may have been our father or mother, brother or sister, or teachers. Since the benefit is derived from them it cannot be assessed. It is not fit that I now retaliate for the harm they have done earlier. II. The second type of patience puts up with misery. III. The third is ready to investigate the nature of the whole of reality. The first two mean to show patience by having investigated the real nature of a harmful person, misery, and they are relative. The third, which must be taken in an ultimate sense, is showing patience by having understood the harmony that runs through the whole of reality. 27). Regarding attachment in Thirty Seven Practices of Bodhisattva it is said: It is the practice of the Bodhisattvas to renounce clinging attachment when they come across with pleasure giving objects: For although they appear beautiful, like rainbow in summer, they should not be seen as truly existent. Objects in a balanced fashion, so we must become aware of the reality of phenomena in order to achieve that. Once we understand the mode of existence of phenomena, their misleading appearance and actual lack of inherent existent detachment from the belief in their intrinsic existence arises. We will never be misled when we know the deceptive nature of their appearance and relate to them properly.
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