A Hundred Blazing Lights: Chapter Four

This chapter is on the ‘mind of awakening’ (bodhicitta) and  is divided into four main sections:

1) Explanation of bodhicitta. This has the following subsections:

• identifying bodhicitta,
• the divisions of bodhicitta,
• the meaning of bodhicitta,
• identifying the two types of mind generation (sems skyes),
• the benefits of bodhicitta,
• the faults of abandoning bodhicitta,
• and the main points of training

2) Explanation of the Four Immeasurables. This section is divided into the following sub-sections:

• the faults of not having the four immeasurables,
• the benefits of cultivating the four immeasurables ,
• the nature of the four immeasurables,
• the categories of the four immeasurables,
• the extraordinary characteristics of the four immeasurables of the Mahayana

3) Supplementary Explanation 4) Conclusion Download full chapter here (forthcoming).