Chogyam Trungpa: Take on the Three Principal Causes Pema Chodron: Take on the Three Principal Causes Jamgon Kongtrul: Take up the Three Primary Resources Alan Wallace: Acquire the Three Principal Causes Rabten & Dhargyey: Attain the Three Principal Causes. Dilgo Khyentse: Three Things Maintain Inseparably LEARN THE THREE DIFFICULT POINTS DON`T ALLOW THREE THINGS TO WEAKEN  Guidelines   Jamgon Kongtrul

Take up the Three Primary Resources
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The primary resources for working at dharma are a good guru, the proper practice of dharma with a workable mind, and suitable conditions for dharma practice - food, clothing, and so on. If these three are all available to you, take joy in that and pray that they be available to others, too. If they are not all available, meditate on compassion for others and take on yourself the deficiencies that all sentient beings experience in these primary resources. Pray that you and all others may have them.

From The Great Path of Awakening : An Easily Accessible Introduction for Ordinary People by Jamgon Kongtrul, translated by Ken McLeod. Copyright 1993 by Ken McLeod.
Published by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Inc., Boston.

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