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This has been translated as the mind of enlightenment or the awakening mind. To fully qualify as bodhicitta, the mind should be uncontrived and arise almost automatically without having to meditate on the stages which bring it about. It is the entryway to the bodhisattva paths. So when this uncontrived mind of bodhicitta first arises, that is simultaneously the first moment of the path of accumulation. '''Different kinds of Bodhicitta should be listed here, no?'''  +
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Analytic meditation (''dpyad sgom'') is the style of meditation in which the person uses the faculty called ''[[prajñā]]'' (''shes rab''), which is the aspect of the intellect that can analyze things and decide on them as being this or that. Thus it is a faculty that is able to uncover deeper levels of the reality of phenomena. This style of meditation is the style of the practitioner who engages in study, particularly study supported with logic and reason. The intellect is used as a means of approaching reality. It is thus sometimes known as the paṇḍita's (scholar's) style of meditation.  +
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This has also been translated as leisure and opportunity, or freedom and connection. The etymology of that translation relates to being free of certain negative states. It literally means having the support of a body which is free of eight states which themselves are unfree, and so it translates to meaning freedom. These are the eighteen qualities specifically related to a precious human rebirth. There are eight freedoms and ten endowments. The freedoms are qualities of being free from a particular condition or state, and the wealths are positive qualities or conditions which we are endowed with.The ten endowments are divided into five personal endowments and five external endowments. The five personal endowments are: 1) Being a human 2) Being born in a central land 3) having complete sense faculties 4) having not engaged in wrong livelihoods 5) having faith in the Three Jewels The five external endowments are: 6) a buddha has come into this world 7) a buddha has shown the Dharma 8) the teachings of the Buddha are still present 9) there are still followers of that teaching 10) there is the conducive circumstance of a spiritual friend  +
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the two accumulations refers to two sets of things that need to be gathered together in order to progress along the path to enlightenment. The two accumulations referred to here are teh accumulation of merit and the accumulation of wisdom  +