Talk 1, Tibetan - English

Topics: Distinguishing the Middle from the Extremes, chapter 4,
The Antidotes, A. Description of the five paths
1. 37 factors of enlightenment,
(d) 5 forms of mastery: 1. faith gives the mastery over aspiration, 2. diligence gives the mastery over application to the practice, 3. recollection gives the mastery over not forgetting the focal referent during meditation, 4.Samadhi gives the mastery over the mind not to wander to the focal referent, 5. knowledge gives the mastery to probably distinguish phenomena - the path of application, heat and peak
(e) 5 powers/ strengths: same as in the previous verse, each of the factors possesses a strength and leads to the next
(f) 7 branches of enlightenment: knowledge, recollection , diligence, joy, suppleness, samadhi, equanimity - the first bhumi, the path of vision
(g) the eightfold noble path: correct view, correct manner of thinking, correct speech, correct action, correct livelihood, correct effort, correct recollection, correct samadhi - the path of meditation , 2- 10th bhumi
Singing Milarepa songs

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