“The prerequisites of calm abiding:
- To stay in a favorable place
- Few desires
- Contentment
- To completely abandon many activities
- Pure ethics
- To completely abandon discursive thoughts of desire”
From OUTLINE of Middle Length Lam-Rim with Trijang Rinpoche’s Additional Outlines by Lama Tsongkhapa (and Trijang Rinpoche). Translated by Philip Quarcoo. Unpublished DRAFT translation (May 2012) by FPMT, Inc. Download the PDF here.