Ringu Tulku Rinpoche

The Excellence of Bodhichitta

BA5 stanza 4

November 4 2010

Transcribed by Albert Harris

Teachings on the Bodhicharyavatara Online Shedra

Now we come to stanza number 4 and we come to the actual teachings, actual instructions. And here, the Bodhicharyavatara is actually of ten-chapters. It is divided like this: The first three-chapters is on how to generate bodhicitta for those who haven’t generated bodhicitta, bodhicitta has not arisen in their minds. Then the next three-chapters are on how not to degenerate the bodhicitta in those who actually have bodhicitta already generated so that it doesn’t become less to generate the bodhicitta. And then the next three-chapters are on how to improve on them, how to enhance, how to make the bodhicitta stronger and develop more and more. These are the first nine-chapters. And then the last chapter, the tenth-chapter, is the result of the bodhicitta , how to share it , how to dedicate it for the benefit of all the beings. These are the ten-chapters.

Now the first chapter is about the benefit of the bodhicitta, to encourage people ­­­­____ bodhicitta and kind of develop it.