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The Types of Practice
The spiritual genius engages in cyclic existence the way a sick person takes foul but potent medicine.
The Transcendences
To understand the transcendences, one must grasp their number, their nature, their order, their meanings, the excellence of their practice, their internal analysis, the summary of their function, their resistances, their excellences, and the ways they mutually determine one another.
The Sixty Qualities of Transcendent Speech
The speech of the transcendent ones is kindly. It strengthens the roots of virtue in beings, coaxing goodness to the surface as sunlight coaxes a seed to break open.
The Scope of Vigilance in Practice
A spiritual genius pays careful attention to where practice is undertaken, for the environment shapes the mind as surely as climate shapes the land.
The Resistances to the Transcendences
A spiritual genius recognizes that every transcendence has its own field of resistance — subtle forces that pull the mind back into contraction.
The Purification of the Three Spheres of Practice
The spiritual genius exerts herself with magnificent, heroic effort— not frantic, not tense, but vast, courageous, and joyful.
The Perfection of Teaching
The teaching of a superior being is recognized through four qualities.
The Perfection of Syllables
The syllables uttered by a spiritual genius carry their own completeness, their own internal perfection. Each sound serves eight distinct functions, woven together into a single force of clarity.
The Perfection of Speech
The speech of those born from the Victor’s lineage carries a distinct fragrance.
The Perfection of Content
The content of true teaching is itself a form of virtue, complete from its first note to its final consequence.
The Order, Names, and Realization of the Transcendences
The Order of the Six Transcendences
The Mutual Determination of the Six Transcendences
The six transcendences illuminate one another.
The Inclusion of All Good Practices
All wholesome practices can be understood as belonging to three modes: distracted, concentrated, and mixed.
The Greatness of Teaching
Teaching unfolds in many modes because beings understand in many ways.
The Excellences of the Transcendences
A spiritual genius gives with such compassion that, meeting a supplicant, she is willing even to offer her life — and gives without desire for reward or any clinging to outcome.
The Dharma’s Usefulness and Uselessness — The Way Spiritual Genius Works
The deepest truth cannot be taught.
The Characteristics of the Six Transcendences
Generosity loosens the grip of avarice.
The Benefit of Teaching
Such a teacher shines among people like the sun rising over a darkened land.
The Analysis of Wisdom
The wise spiritual genius practices wisdom by recognizing its true nature and the breadth of its function.
The Analysis of Tolerance
The wise spiritual genius practices tolerance by understanding its full breadth and power.
The Analysis of Teaching
The teaching of a superior being arises from three depths: from scripture, from realization, and from the mastery attained by crossing the great stages.
The Analysis of Practice
Practice begins with a twofold intuition: the selflessness of the person and the selflessness of things.
The Analysis of Morality
The wise spiritual genius practices morality with a clear understanding of its depth and structure.
The Analysis of Intentional Implications
Within the speech of the awakened ones, not every statement is meant to be taken at its surface meaning.
The Analysis of Intentional Hints
Intentional hints are the subtle signals woven into the Buddha’s words—guided meanings that point beyond the literal.
The Analysis of Generosity
A wise spiritual genius practices generosity with complete clarity about its nature and its reach.
The Analysis of Effort
A wise spiritual genius practices effort by understanding its essence and its full range of effects.
The Analysis of Contemplation
A wise spiritual genius practices contemplation by knowing its depth and its transformative power.
The Accessories of Enlightenment — The Conscience That Unmasks Appearances
Why the Wise Compare Reality to Dreams and Reflections
The Accessories of Enlightenment — The Conscience That Unfolds the Nature of Objects
How a Spiritual Genius Looks at the World of Things
The Accessories of Enlightenment — The Analysis of Conscience in the Path of the Spiritual Genius
Understanding the Mirage of Construction
The Abandonment of the Attitudes of the Disciples and Hermit Sages
Teaching the Dharma — The Spiritual Genius Rejects Stinginess
Rejecting the Suspicion That the Spiritual Genius Might Commit Offenses Driven by Passion
Refuting the Fear of Unreality and Natural Purity
Refuting the Fear of Unreality and Natural Purity
Precept and Instruction — An Intuitive Guide
Emergence and the Storehouse of Practice
Investigation of the Dharma
Investigating the Discovery of the Teaching
Understanding What We Call an “Objective”
Investigating Conscientious Attitudes
Worship, Service, and the Immeasurables
Action Endowed with Liberative Art — Summary and Analysis
The Mutual Determination of the Six Transcendences
The six transcendences illuminate one another. To understand any one of them completely, a spiritual genius must see how they mutually include, mutually differentiate, mutually teach, and mutually give rise to one another.
The Spiritual Gene
A superior spiritual gene carries four unmistakable qualities. It holds an innate excellence, a clarity that does not depend on education or ritual but appears whenever truth is spoken. It bears completeness, the rare balance of compassion, discipline, insight, courage, and humility functioning as a single rhythm. It radiates universal value.