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- Bodhicitta + (The term bodhicitta has been translated as … The term bodhicitta has been translated as the mind of enlightenment or the awakening mind.</br>Bodhicitta is the altruistic thought to seek enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings. It is said to have two aspirations: (1) a compassion aspiration aimed at sentient beings and their suffering and (2) and an aspiration that aims for the fully enlightened state, since that is the most effective way to help sentient beings to be free of suffering and to attain the enlightened state themselves.</br></br>Maitreya states in his Ornament of Clear Realization (Abhisamayālaṃkāra) that bodhicitta is the wish to attain the state of perfect enlightenment for the sake of other sentient beings.</br></br>Bodhicitta is the gateway to the Mahāyāna path and is the motivating force that distinguishes a practitioner of the Great Vehicle from a Hināyāna practitioner. Because it is the desire for oneself to achieve the highest state of enlightenment, and when that is attained to continuously and spontaneously help other beings to also attain that unsurpassed state, it is called the thought of enlightenment or the mind of awakening.</br></br>To fully qualify as bodhicitta, it should be an uncontrived state of mind that arises almost automatically, without having to constantly recall all the preceding causal stages that bring it about. When this uncontrived mind of bodhicitta first arises in a being’s mindstream, that moment is considered the first moment of the Mahāyāna path of accumulation and marks the beginning of the bodhisattva path.</br></br>Bodhicitta is one of the principal factors on the Mahāyāna path, along with the realization of emptiness, that acts as a primary cause for the perfect enlightenment of the Buddhas.</br></br>Bodhicitta can be divided into ultimate and relative bodhicitta. This wish to attain enlightenment for the welfare of all is relative bodhicitta. Ultimate bodhicitta is the direct and nonconceptual apprehension of the ultimate nature of all phenomena.n of the ultimate nature of all phenomena.)
- Kṣaṇasaṃpad + (This has also been translated as leisure a … 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. </br></br>These are the eighteen qualities specifically related to a precious human rebirth.</br></br>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. </br></br>The five personal endowments are:</br></br>1) Being a human </br>2) Being born in a central land</br>3) having complete sense faculties</br>4) having not engaged in wrong livelihoods</br>5) having faith in the Three Jewels</br></br></br>The five external endowments are:</br></br>6) a buddha has come into this world</br>7) a buddha has shown the Dharma </br>8) the teachings of the Buddha are still present</br>9) there are still followers of that teaching</br>10) there is the conducive circumstance of a spiritual friendnducive circumstance of a spiritual friend)
- Sambhāradvaya + (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)
