“Ethical discipline consists in giving up harm and the wish to harm others. The perfection of ethical discipline is defined as gradually increasing the mind’s familiarization with it until it is complete. It consists in the ethical discipline of abstention from wrongdoing, which has already been explained, in the ethical discipline of collecting virtue, which involves performing any physical or verbal virtues while abiding by the bodhisattva ethic, and in the ethical discipline of helping others, which is the assistance that bodhisattvas give to sentient beings. To sum up, you should strive to keep the three ethical disciplines to which you are committed unsullied by faults or transgressions, and to purify them by restoration.”
From The Southern Lineage – Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by Je Gendun Jamyang
As translated in: The Southern Lineage Lamrim: An Explicit Instruction on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment – The Abbreviated Commentary Lineage of Manjughosha’s Oral Instructions by Gedun Jamyang, which is included in The Pearl Garland: An Anthology of Lamrims, translated from the Tibetan under Venerable Dagpo Rinpoche’s guidance by Rosemary Patton, Editions Guepele (France)
Photo: His Holiness the Dalai Lama Teaching the 2013 Jangchup Lamrim Teachings, Sera Monastery, Bylakuppe, India, December 2013, © Jeremy Russell/OHHDL
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