by Gelek Rimpoche
- Create a sacred environment.
- Arrange symbolic offerings.
- Position body and mind.
- Envision Supreme Field.
- Express praise, entreat qualities.
- Present symbolic and boundless imagined offerings.
- Purify all that is negative.
- Rejoice in all that is positive.
- Seek guidance.
- Request to remain.
- Dedicate effort.
- Ask for inspiration and blessings.
- Acknowledge the spiritual master.
- Investigate qualities of the spiritual master.
- Reflect on qualities of the student.
- Cultivate pure relationship.
- Embrace human life.
- Understand its value.
- Appreciate the rarity.
- Face the inevitability of death.
- Thus all created phenomena are impermanent
- Realize death’s time is uncertain.
- Wonder what happens after death.
- Contemplate Bardo.
- Avoid hell rebirth.
- Avoid hungry ghost rebirth.
- Avoid animal realm rebirth
- Remember limitations of human rebirth.
- Avoid demigod rebirth.
- Avoid samsaric god rebirth.
- Know what can help and harm in life and death.
- Take refuge.
- Consider: Positive actions bring positive results.
- Consider: Negative actions bring negative consequences.
- Recognize suffering.
- Thus all contaminated phenomena are suffering
- Determine causes of suffering.
- Seek liberation.
- Thus all phenomena are Empty
- Nirvana is peace
- Expand your scope.
- Cherish others.
- Foster Love.
- Ripen Compassion.
- Commit wholeheartedly.
- Aspire to Enlightenment.
- This great mind is the doorway.
- Be generous.
- Embody discipline
- Practice patience.
- Persevere.
- This completes the Path of Accumulation
- Remember concentration.
- This completes the Path of Action
- Engage wisdom.
- This completes the Path of Seeing
- Celebrate the quality and rarity of Vajrayana.
- Rely upon the Vajra master, enter Vajrayana.
- Uphold vows and commitments.
- Practice in Generation Stage.
- This completes the Path of Meditation
- Perfect in Completion stage.
- This completes the Path of No More Learning
- Enjoy the Freedom of Ultimate Union