GToM Condensed Meaning (Part 2)

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Offering the practice of the seven limbs and the mandala has seven parts:

Prostration

Offering

Confession

Rejoicing

Requesting the Turning of the Wheel of Dharma

Beseeching the Spiritual Guide not to pass away

Dedication

Prostration has five parts:

Prostrating to our Spiritual Guide as the Enjoyment Body

Prostrating to our Spiritual Guide as the Emanation Body

Prostrating to our Spiritual Guide as the Truth Body

Prostrating to our Spiritual Guide as the synthesis of all Three Jewels

Prostrating to the lineage Gurus and Three Jewels

Offering has seven parts:

Offering the outer offerings and the five objects of desire

Offering the mandala

Offering our spiritual practice

Inner offering

Secret offering

Thatness offering

Offering medicines, and ourself as a servant

Offering the outer offerings and the five objects of desire has two parts:

Offering the outer offerings

Offering the five objects of desire

Making praises and requests has four parts:

Requesting by reciting the name mantra

Requesting by remembering his good qualities and his kindness

Requesting by expressing his good qualities

Single-pointed request

Requesting by remembering his good qualities and his kindness has six parts:

Requesting by remembering his good qualities as explained in the Vinaya scriptures

Requesting by remembering his good qualities as a Mahayana Spiritual Guide

Requesting by remember his good qualities as a Vajrayana Spiritual Guide

Requesting by remembering that he is kinder than all the Buddhas

Requesting by remembering that he is kinder even than Buddha Shakyamuni

Requesting by remembering that he is a supreme Field of Merit

Requesting by expressing his good qualities has four parts:

Requesting by expressing his outer qualities

Requesting by expressing his inner qualities

Requesting by expressing his secret qualities

Requesting by expressing his thatness qualities

Receiving blessings has two parts:

Receiving the blessings of the four empowerments and reciting mantras

Receiving the blessings of all the stages of the path

Receiving the blessings of the four empowerments and reciting mantras has two parts:

Receiving the blessings of the four empowerments

Reciting the mantras

Receiving the blessings of all the stages of the path has twHow to practice the perfection of

enty-seven parts:

effort mental stabilization wisdom

How to rely upon our Spiritual Guide, the root of all spiritual paths

Developing the aspiration to take the essence of our human life

The actual method for gaining the happiness of higher states in future lives

Developing the wish to gain liberation

How to practice the path that leads to liberation

How to generate great compassion, the foundation of the Mahayana

Equalizing self and others

The dangers of self-cherishing

The benefits of cherishing others

Exchanging self with others

Taking and giving

The third to the seventh points of training the mind

How to meditate on superior intention and generate bodhichitta

How to take the vows of aspiring and engaging bodhichitta

How to practice the perfection of giving

How to practice the perfection of moral discipline

How to practice the perfection of patience

How to practice the perfection of effort

How to practice the perfection of mental stabilization

How to practice the perfection of wisdom by sustaining space-like meditative equipoise

How to practice the perfection of wisdom by sustaining illusion-like subsequent attainment

How to train the mind in the profound view of the Middle Way

Becoming a suitable vessel for the profound path of Secret Mantra, and keeping the vows and commitments purely

How to meditate on generation stage

How to practice completion stage

The way to practice the ritual of transference of consciousness if, having meditated, we have received no signs

How to offer prayers to be cared for by our Spiritual Guide in all future lives.