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The Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment

by Atisha Dipamkarashrijnana (982-1054)

Homage to the Bodhisattva, the youthful Manjushri.

I pay homage with great respect

To all the Victorious Ones of the three times,

To their teaching and to those who aspire to virtue.

Urged by the good disciple Jangchup Wö,

I shall illuminate the lamp

For the path to enlightenment.

Understand there are three kinds of persons

Because of their small, middling and supreme capacities.

I shall write clearly distinguishing

Their individual characteristics.

Know that those who by whatever means

Seek for themselves no more

Than the pleasures of cyclic existence

Are persons of the least capacity.

Those who seek peace for themselves alone,

Turning their back on worldly pleasures

And avoiding destructive actions

Are said to be of middling capacity.

Those who, through their personal suffering,

Truly want to end completely

All the suffering of others

Are persons of supreme capacity.

For those excellent living beings,

Who desire supreme enlightenment,

I shall explain the perfect methods

Taught by the spiritual teachers.

Facing paintings, statues and so forth

Of the completely enlightened one,

Reliquaries and the excellent teaching,

Offer flowers, incense -- whatever you have.

With the seven part offering

From the [ Prayer of ] Noble Conduct ,

And with the thought never to turn back

Till you gain ultimate enlightenment;

With strong faith in the Three Jewels,

Kneeling with one knee on the ground

And your hands pressed together,

First of all take refuge three times.

Next, beginning with an attitude

Of love for all living creatures,

Consider beings, excluding none,

Suffering in the three bad rebirths -

Suffering birth, death and so forth.

Then, since you want to free these beings

From the suffering of pain,

From suffering and the causes of suffering,

Arouse immutably the resolve

To attain enlightenment.

The qualities of developing

Such an aspiration are

Fully explained by Maitreya

In the Array of Trunks Sutra .

Having learned about the infinite benefits

Of the intention to gain full enlightenment

By reading this sutra or listening to a teacher,

Arouse it repeatedly to make it steadfast.

The Sutra Requested by Viradatta

Fully explains the merit therein.

At this point, in summary,

I will cite just three verses.

If it possessed physical form,

The merit of the altruistic intention

Would completely fill the whole of space

And exceed even that.

If someone were to fill with jewels

As many Buddha fields, as there are grains

Of sand in the Ganges,

To offer to the Protector of the World,

This would be surpassed by

The gift of folding one’s hands

And inclining one’s mind to enlightenment,

For such is limitless.

Having developed the aspiration for enlightenment,

Constantly enhance it through concerted effort.

To remember it in this and also in other lives,

Keep the precepts properly as explained.

Without the vow of the engaged intention,

Perfect aspiration will not grow.

Make effort definitely to take it,

Since you want the wish

For enlightenment to grow,

Those who maintain any of the seven

Kinds of individual liberation vow,

Have the ideal [prerequisite] for

The Bodhisattva vow, not others.

The Tathagata spoke of seven kinds

Of individual liberation vow.

The best of these is glorious pure conduct,

Said to be the vow of a fully ordained person.

According to the ritual described in

The chapter on discipline in the Bodhisattva Stages ,

Take the vow from a good

And well qualified spiritual teacher.

Understand that a good spiritual teacher

Is one skilled in the vow ceremony,

Who lives by the vow and has

The confidence and compassion to bestow it.

However, in case you try but cannot

Find such a spiritual teacher,

I shall explain another

Correct procedure for taking the vow.

I shall write here very clearly,

As explained in the Ornament

Of Manjushri’s Buddha Land Sutra ,

How, long ago, when Manjushri

Was Ambaraja, he aroused

The intention to become enlightened.

“In the presence of the protectors,

I arouse the intention to gain full enlightenment.

I invite all beings as my guests

And shall free them from cyclic existence.

“From this moment onwards

Until I attain enlightenment,

I shall not harbour harmful thoughts,

Anger, avarice or envy.

“I shall cultivate pure conduct,

Give up wrong-doing and desire

And with joy in the vow of discipline

Train myself to follow the Buddhas.

“I shall cultivate pure conduct,

Give up wrong-doing and desire

And with joy in the vow of discipline

Train myself to follow the Buddhas.

“I shall purify limitless

Inconceivable lands

And remain in the ten directions

For all those who call my name.

“I shall purify all my bodily

And my verbal forms of activity.

My mental activities, too, I shall purify

And do nothing that is non-virtuous.”

When those observing the vow

Of the active intention have trained well

In the three forms of discipline, their respect

For these three forms of discipline grows,

Which causes purity of body, speech and mind.

Therefore, through effort in the vow made by

Bodhisattvas for pure, full enlightenment,

The collections for complete enlightenment

Will be thoroughly accomplished.

All Buddhas say the cause for the completion

Of the collections, whose nature is

Merit and exalted wisdom,

Is the development of higher perceptions.

Just as a bird with undeveloped

Wings cannot fly in the sky,

Those without the power of higher perception

Cannot work for the good of living beings.

The merit gained in a single day

By one who possesses higher perception

Cannot be gained even in a hundred lifetimes

By one without such higher perception.

Those who want swiftly to complete

The collections for full enlightenment,

Will accomplish higher perception

Through effort, not through laziness.

Without the attainment of calm abiding,

Higher perception will not occur.

Therefore make repeated effort

To accomplish calm abiding.

While the conditions for calm abiding

Are incomplete, meditative stabilization

Will not be accomplished, even if one meditates

Strenuously for thousands of years.

Thus maintaining well the conditions

Mentioned in the Collection for

Meditative Stabilization Chapter ,

Place the mind on any one

Virtuous focal object.

When the practitioner has gained calm abiding,

Higher perceptions will also be gained,

But without practice of the perfection of wisdom,

The obstructions will not come to an end.

Thus, to eliminate all obstructions

To liberation and omniscience,

The practitioner should continually cultivate

The perfection of wisdom with skilful means.

Wisdom without skilful means

And skilful means, too, without wisdom

Are referred to as bondage.

Therefore do not give up either.

To eliminate doubts concerning

What is wisdom and what skilful means,

I shall make clear the difference

Between skilful means and wisdom.

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