The Alchemical Exchange

Those who desire liberation from an existence of narrow self-centeredness, constricted emotionality and underlying dissatisfaction in order to better connect to, understand, love and bring goodness to their fellow beings are called “bodhisattvas.”  Bodhisattvas cultivate bodhicitta, the seed of understanding and love that lies dormant within each of us. This way of living taught and modeled by the Buddha is called the Path of the Bodhisattva.

1. The Four Mind Turnings

   1. Precious Human Birth

   2. Impermanence

   3. Karma

   4. Suffering

2. Taking Refuge

3. The Precepts of Taking Refuge

4. Generating Bodhichitta

5. The Precepts of Aspirational Bodhichitta

6. Nine Practices of the Paramita of Generosity

7. Equalizing Self and Other

8. Exchanging Self and Other

9. Eight Verses of Training the Mind

10. Instructions for Meditation on Ultimate Bodhichitta

11. Instructions for Meditation on Relative Bodhichitta

12. Tonglen Practice (Taking & Sending)

13. The Transformation of Adverse Conditions into the  Path of Awakening

    1. To Make the Transformation by Relying on Relative Bodhichitta

    2. To Make the Transformation by Relying on Ultimate Bodhichitta

    3. To Make the Transformation by Relying on Special Practices of Bodhichitta

14. The Utilization of the Practice in One's Whole Life 

    1. What to do During One’s Life

    2. Instructions for the Moment of Death

15. Thirty Seven Practices of Bodhisattvas