The Five Impurities
The relative poverty of spiritual practice at this point in time.
The impurity of time
The first of the preliminary practices.
Cleaning the meditation room and setting up a shrine
The first line of the root text.
Homage to great compassion
The three objects
The line which shows that all sufferings and difficulties can be traced back to one source, the self-cherishing mind.
Gather all blame into one.
The impurity of living beings
The two parts of the main practice of training the mind.
Training in conventional bodhichitta, training in ultimate bodhichitta
Serlingpa
The three poisons
Desirous attachment, hatred, and ignorance
The line which refers to the practice of taking and giving.
Mount these two upon the breath
The strong tendency of people today to accept and foster mistaken or distorted views, such as views which deny the effectiveness of Dharma.
The impurity of view
The meditation, not explicitly included in the root text, which trains us to cherish ourself and others equally.
Equalizing self and others
Adverse conditions, referenced in the line, "The development of the ____ __________ will be transformed into the path to enlightenment."
Five impurities
The three virtuous roots
Non-attachment, non-hatred, and non-ignorance
The lines which advises us to memorize certain words to recite at appropriate times during our practice.
To remember this,
Train in every activity by words.
Our anger, attachment, and ignorance are much stronger and more harmful than the delusions experienced by people of earlier times.
The impurity of delusions
The practice in which we change the object of our cherishing from ourself to other living beings.
Exchanging self with others
Essential practices, referenced in the line, "First learn the __________."
Preliminaries
The practice which prevents desirous attachment, anger, and/or ignorance from developing during daily encounters.
Restraining the doors of the sense powers.
The line that explains the good qualities of the instructions on training the mind.
It is like a diamond, like the sun, and like a medicinal tree.
The decline in average human age over time.
The impurity of life span
The decision to attain enlightenment for the sake of all living beings.
Bodhichitta
Practices which enhance bodhichitta, referenced in the line, "Train alternately in _____ and ______."
Giving and taking
The lines from the root text which refer to the practice in the meditation break.
The three objects, three poisons, and three virtuous roots
Are the brief instruction for the subsequent attainment.
The line which refers to contemplating the benefits of cherishing others
Meditate on the great kindness of all.