This Week’s Lamrim Quote – 5 May 2014

“Adverse conditions for joyous effort:

• Seeing that one is able to accomplish virtuous dharmas but not engaging in them
• The discouragement that thinks: “How could I ever accomplish anything like that?”

Relying on favorable conditions for joyous effort:

• The power of devotion
• The power of stability
• The power of joy
• The power of suspension”

From Textual Outline for the Medium Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Trijang Rinpoche As translated in: 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 Unpublished DRAFT translation (May 2012) by FPMT, Inc. Download the PDF here.