Advice for Spiritual Practitioners

Advice for Spiritual Practitioners from the 8th Century Master, Drenpa Namkha

The Seven Things to Meditate Upon:

🔹Impermanence

🔹The difficulty of acquiring a precious human birth

🔹The faults of cyclic existence

🔹The truth of cause and effect

🔹Compassion

🔹Refuge and Generating the Mind of Enlightenment

🔹Emptiness

The Three Applications:

🔹Having understood the faults of cyclic existence, one must apply the practice of refuge.

🔹Having understood the truth of cause and effect, one must apply the avoidance of non-virtuous actions.

🔹Having developed loving kindness and compassion, one must act to benefit other sentient beings.

The Three Detachments:

🔹Having understood impermanence and the faults of cyclic existence, one should detach from this life.

🔹Having experienced great compassion, one should detach from self benefit.

🔹Having meditated on emptiness, one should detach from grasping things as inherently existing.