Perfect Enlightenment Come From Following The Mahāyāna Path

 

However, merely having compassion is not enough. We must rescue sentient beings from suffering and put them on the path of happiness. 

But at the moment we ourselves are not free. We do not have full knowledge or full power. We are completely bound by our own karma and defilements. 

So how can we help? 

The sole most effective way to help sentient beings is to attain perfect enlightenment, because if we attain perfect enlightenment then even during a single moment we can rescue countless sentient beings. 

This perfect enlightenment does not arise without proper causes an

d conditions, and they come from following the Mahāyāna path. 

The first step is to have a very sincere wish to attain perfect enlightenment. Then you must practice. The main goal of practice is to develop both method and wisdom. In order to fly, you need two wings, and, similarly, in order to attain enlightenment, you need two supports: the method to realize wisdom and wisdom itself. These two depend on each other. 

Method means the accumulation of merit through generosity, moral conduct, patience, zeal, and concentration. 

Loving-kindness and compassion will only suppress faults, the chief of which is self-clinging. 

These methods only suppress self-clinging. In order to completely dig out the root of self-clinging, we require wisdom, which completely eliminates it.

To develop wisdom, we must have concentration. With these two together, we will be able to attain perfect enlightenment. 

🌻 The 41st Sakya Trizin, Kyabgon Gongma Trichen Rinpoche