refugeJamyang London, July 2014

realise

Analyse: Nature, Cause, Effect

suffering of birth

Birth is suffering because it is associated with pain

Birth is suffering because it is associated with dysfunctional tendencies

Birth is suffering because it is the origin of suffering

Birth is suffering because it is the origin of afflictions

Birth is suffering because it is an unwanted separation

2. Suffering of old age

3. Suffering of sickness

4. Suffering of death

5. Association with the unpleasant

6. Disassociation from the pleasant

7. Not getting what one wants

“In brief, the five contaminated aggregates are

suffering”

suffering of the appropriated aggregates

Vessels for future suffering

Vessels for suffering based on what presently exists

Vessels for the suffering of pain

Vessels for the suffering of change

Vessels for the suffering of conditionality

“This is neither inappropriate nor accidental; it is the character or

nature of cyclic existence. While we are in cyclic existence there is

no escaping it. If we are disgusted by it, then we must eliminate the

process of birth. To do this, we must eliminate its cause.”

Geshe Bodowa, LRCM I, p. 280

Know your enemy

o Identification, order in which they arise, causes, faults of the

afflictions, antidotes

At first it completely afflicts your mind

Causing you to err with regard to what you are observing

Reinforcing your propensities, and causing the same sort of affliction to recur

In society you feel apprehensive, joyless and devoid of confidence

You die with regret, your aims unfulfilled

And after death you are reborn into a miserable realm

1. Where one knows the situation

2. Where there is doubt

3. Where there is ignorance

1. Knowing the good qualities

2. Knowing the distinctions

3. Through commitment

4. By refusing to acknowledge other refuges

Conviction that they can protect you from suffering

Aspiration to attain these states

Joyous effort leading you to engage into Dharma practice

Attain refuge – liberation from suffering & its causes

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